Man joins hearing from loo, HC orders Rs.1L fine
Ahmedabad, July 23 -- The Gujarat high court on Tuesday ordered a man who attended virtual court proceedings from a toilet to perform community service for 15 days. This is in addition to the Rs.1 lakh fine earlier imposed on him.
The court was hearing a suo motu contempt case against Samad Abdul Rehman Shah, who had joined a June 20 hearing to quash an FIR in a criminal case while seated on a toilet. 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, cleaning himself, and later exiting the washroom before briefly going off-screen and reappearing.
A division bench of Justices AS Supehia and RT Vachhani took up the co...
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