'Illegal': Court on punishment of standing with arms raised

NEW DELHI, Aug. 3 -- Days after four undertrials were held guilty of contempt of court and given a bizarre punishment of standing with their arms raised, a sessions court has called the action illegal. "The order cannot qualify the test legality and propriety. The order passed by Ld. Magistrate is not only illegal but even the legal procedure has not been adopted," additional sessions judge Anju Bajaj Chandna of the Dwarka court remarked. The judge set aside the July 15 order passed by judicial magistrate first class Saurabh Goyal.P5

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