India, Aug. 23 -- Interfering with the duties of court-appointed commissioners constitutes obstruction of justice, observed the Delhi High Court as it sentenced 12 individuals to one day of simple imprisonment for assaulting and hindering commissioners during their official visit to Kolkata in January 2015.

A bench of justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar delivered the ruling on Friday while hearing a criminal contempt petition initiated suo motu, based on a complaint from one of the 11 lawyers appointed to carry out raids, on shops across five markets in Kolkata, allegedly involved in selling counterfeit Samsung products.

In his complaint, the lawyer stated that they were assaulted by an unruly mob of 200 people, ...