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'Sit in one corner': India's Supreme Court tells former top police officer

Published 02/12/2019, 10:57 AM
Updated 02/12/2019, 11:01 AM
© Reuters. A woman checks her mobile phone inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi

© Reuters. A woman checks her mobile phone inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a putdown rare even for India's sometimes dramatic court proceedings, the country's Supreme Court told the former chief of federal police on Tuesday to "sit in one corner" and fined him 100,000 rupees for disobeying the court.

M Nageswara Rao, former chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was given the instruction after being found guilty of violating an earlier order that mandated seeking court permission before taking an investigating officer off a case.

"Please go and sit in one corner till the rising of the court. Fine to be deposited in one week," Ranjan Gogoi, the court's chief justice, told him after the court found him guilty of contempt of court.

Rao proceeded to sit in a corner and appeared to be avoiding eye contact with anyone, a Reuters witness said.

Bizarre orders and courtroom drama are fairly common in Indian courts, but lawyers and court officials said such a direction towards a senior CBI official in the Supreme Court was unprecedented.

© Reuters. A woman checks her mobile phone inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi

Rao, now an additional director in the CBI, had ordered the transfer of a CBI officer investigating a sexual exploitation case at a shelter home in the eastern state of Bihar.

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