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The Supreme Court connected Friday (May 8, 2026) took cognisance of a practice made by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) astir a video footage showing an Andhra Pradesh High Court justice sending a young advocator to a day’s judicial custody for a procedural lapse.
The court’s authoritative website showed the lawsuit tentatively listed for proceeding connected May 15.
The SCBA had urged Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, successful a solution passed connected May 6, to look into the incidental portion expressing daze astatine the judge’s reported conduct.
The SCBA resolution, issued done its president Vikas Singh, had highlighted that judicial spot was champion demonstrated done patience, alternatively than fear, particularly erstwhile dealing with young advocates who were inactive caller to the profession.
“The SCBA expresses its heavy interest and daze astatine the reported incidental dated May 5, 2026, earlier the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, wherein a young advocator was allegedly directed to beryllium taken into judicial custody for 24 hours during tribunal proceedings earlier Justice Tarlada Rajasekhar Rao,” the SCBA solution had stated.
The Bar Council of India (BCI), a statutory assemblage of lawyers, had besides sought an urgent involution of the Chief Justice successful the aforesaid matter.
In a ceremonial representation, the BCI has said that contempt the advocator “repeatedly seeking pardon and mercy” and claiming helium was successful carnal pain, the justice remained “unmoved”.
