The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to intervene with an order of the Delhi High Court, which in 2015 refused to reduce the punishment given to a lawyer to a lawyer to ange the humility of a woman judicial officer, and gave her two weeks to surrender.
A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan recorded that it “is not willing to intervene with orders” and dismissed their petition “with orders passed by the Delhi High Court against advocate Sanjay Rathore.
In October 2015, the complainant Judicial Officer was serving as a metropolitan magistrate in the Karcardoma Court, when Rathore in his absence, angry with a stay in his case, misused the officer orally, which included using gender derogatory language. Later an FIR was lodged at Fars Bazar Police Station.
Rathore was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment under the Indian Penal Code Section 509 (intention of humility of a woman), under section 189 under Section 189 (injury to public servant), and additional three months under Section 353 (attack or criminal force against public servant to save them from their duties). It was directed that sentences should run continuously, resulting in a total punishment of two years.
The Delhi High Court refuses to reduce the sentence, however, modified it so that the sentences could run concurrently rather than continuously. As a result, Rathore was sentenced to a total of one year and six months in jail.
The High Court, in its order of May 26, emphasized that a judge should threaten or intimidate the tasks, especially “through gender-specific abuse, is an attack on justice, and should meet with strong accountability”.
Refusing Rathore to any relief, it filed in his order, “The task of annoying the sensibility of a judicial officer, while he was chaired by the court proceedings, was sitting on a day and discharging his serious duty to overcome justice, in the opinion of the court, the judicial decoration and the foundation attack the foundation of integrity.”
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