Delhi lawyer jailed: SC rejects mercy plea; told to surrender in two weeks

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday refused leniency to an advocate, sentencing him to 18 months imprisonment for utilizing abusive connection successful 2015 to outrage the modesty of a judicial serviceman successful a Delhi courtroom and rejected his plea for reducing the jailhouse word to the six months already undergone, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The advocate, Sanjay Rathod, pleaded with the partial moving time seat of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that helium was the sole breadwinner of the household comprising his aged parents, woman and 2 children and that helium was remorseful astir the incident. The seat said the Delhi HC has already directed the sentences (18 months for outraging a woman's modesty and 3 months each for 2 different challan offences) to tally concurrently, frankincense reducing the full play of incarceration from 2 years to 18 months.

It asked the advocator to surrender wrong 2 weeks to service the remaining play of imprisonment.Justice Manmohan, who was the CJ of Delhi HC anterior to assignment arsenic SC judge, said, "In Delhi, women judicial officers comprise astir 50% of the moving spot of judges successful proceedings courts. If their dignity is not protected, it volition make an unsafe ambiance successful the courtroom".