Lawyer appears in high court with taped mouth, bench calls protest in ‘poor taste’

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.

- Shruti Kakkar

While the court termed the behaviour “unacceptable”, it stopped short of taking formal action against him.

The incident unfolded on December | 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.