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The judges directed Tamil Nadu Bar Council to take motion towards the lawyer. (Representational)
Chennai:
An advocate of the Madras Excessive Court docket was suspended yesterday from follow for his alleged “improper” behaviour with a lady in the course of the course of the digital listening to of a case earlier than a single decide.
R D Santhana Krishnan, an advocate from right here, was prevented from practising as an advocate in all courts, tribunals and different authorities in India both in his identify or in any assumed identify until the disposal of the disciplinary proceedings pending towards him for his alleged indecent behaviour, a press launch from the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry mentioned.
The portfolio judges P N Prakash and R Hemalatha on their very own initiated contempt proceedings towards Santhana Krishnan. They directed the CB-CID wing of the police to register a case and maintain an intensive probe on the difficulty and file a report on December 23.
The judges additionally directed the Tamil Nadu Bar Council to take acceptable disciplinary proceedings towards the lawyer and accordingly, it prohibited Santhana Krishnan from practising, by adopting the decision right this moment.
The video purportedly confirmed the lawyer in an intimate posture with a lady, whereas a decide was listening to a case by video-conferencing on Monday. It went viral yesterday.
The bench yesterday mentioned the “Court docket can’t afford to be a mute spectator and switch a Nelson’s eye when such brazen vulgarity is publicly displayed amidst Court docket proceedings”. It directed the the Metropolis Police Commissioner to take steps to dam the circulation of the impugned video clipping in social media.
“Superadded, we’re of the thought of view that it’s excessive time that we revisit the process of conducting court docket proceedings in hybrid mode, particularly within the gentle of the truth that advocates, in massive numbers, have began showing in individual in our Excessive Court docket as nicely within the district Courts.” “Nevertheless, a call on this regard must be taken by the Hon’ble Performing Chief Justice earlier than whom this matter could also be positioned,” the judges mentioned.
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