India, Dec. 5 -- New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has expressed strong displeasure over the conduct of a lawyer who appeared before a bench with red stick-fast tape over his mouth, alleging that he had been "silenced" during earlier hearings. While the court termed the behaviour "unacceptable", it stopped short of taking formal action against him. The incident unfolded on December 1 during the hearing of a contempt case and a connected writ petition filed by Nand Kishore, when advocate RK Saini, counsel for the petitioner, entered the courtroom with red tape stuck across his mouth. Justices Nitin Sambre and Anish Dayal initially assumed the lawyer might have suffered an injury. When questioned, Saini said he was staging a "symbolic protest",...