India, July 23 -- The Gujarat high court on Tuesday ordered a man who virtually attended court proceedings from a toilet to perform community service for 15 days, observing that he had "dragged the high court to the toilet" and "obliterated its sanctity and majesty"

The high court, which closed the contempt proceedings against Samad Abdul Rehman Shah for joining a June 20 hearing to quash a first information report (FIR) from the toilet, had earlier imposed a Rs.1 lakh fine on him.

Shah, the complainant in the case, logged in under the screen name 'Samad Battery' before justice Nirzar S Desai. During the hearing, his phone camera showed him on the toilet seat, cleaning himself, and later exiting the washroom before briefly going off-scr...