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The Delhi High Court precocious recorded its “strong displeasure” implicit the behaviour of a lawyer who appeared for a petitioner with a portion of reddish portion connected his lips. The lawyer claimed that it was a symbolic protestation against being “stopped midway from arguing successful earlier hearings”.
A Bench of Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Anish Dayal, portion refraining from taking enactment against the lawyer, termed the enactment “unbecoming and unbefitting conduct”.
The incidental unfolded connected December 1 during the proceeding of a contempt petition concerning the allotment of a crippled sanctioned successful 1987 nether the Centre’s 20-Point Programme. The petitioner alleged that helium was not allotted the crippled primitively promised to him.
Advocate R.K. Saini then entered the courtroom “leisurely with reddish stickfast portion pasted connected his lips”.
Questioned by the Bench implicit the move, Mr. Saini replied that during the past 2 hearings, helium was “stopped midway” successful his arguments and the reddish portion symbolised that helium had been “silenced”.
The Bench clarified that connected erstwhile occasions, Mr. Saini’s submissions had go “too lengthy and repetitive”. It noted that the behaviour could person warranted action, but successful presumption of the lawyer’s lasting astatine the Bar, it would not proceed against him.
The substance volition beryllium heard adjacent connected January 21, 2026.
