Plea in SC: Recall Rajeev Dhavan for smoking during virtual court hearing

Plea in SC: Recall Rajeev Dhavan for smoking during virtual court hearing

An appeal has been recorded some time recently the Supreme Court asking for Dr. Rajeev Dhavan’s senior assignment to be reviewed after he was seen smoking hookah amid a video hearing.

 Recently, a video clip was circulated highlighting Dhavan smoking hookah amid the virtual hearing within the Rajasthan Political Emergency matter some time recently the Incomparable Court. This gathered bounty of feedback and irate responses from over the Bar. The applicant before the Supreme Court, one Rashid Pathan, affirms Dhavan’s conduct was “shocking in ruining the holy gown of Senior Direct” conjointly falls inside the ambit of Section 2(c) of the Contempt of Courts Act examined with Bar Council Rules relating to advocates’ code of conduct. The plea peruses,

“Beneath Rule 1 & 2 of Bar Council of India, Code of Conduct Rules, charges an advocate to act in a stately way some time recently a Court & with self-respect. The term Court certainly incorporates a virtual Court; and the adherence to honorable conduct could be a ‘must’ without any known special case for a assigned senior advocate.”

In expansion to this later occurrence, the appeal moreover rakes up past occasions including Dhavan, wherein he had heated exchanges with judges of the Court. The applicant claims that the conduct of a Senior Advocate like Dhavan, which has the potential to censure the institution, too influences the petitioner’s right of “having a presumed and grand legal un-smeared by senior advocates such as respondent-1(Dhavan)”. As such, the solicitor has supplicated for Dhavan to be stripped of his Senior assignment.

“… the conduct of Sh. Dhawan has spread the picture of Senior Guide assignment synonymous of being carte blanche, to act self-important and roughshod the nobility of Hon’ble Courts. (sic)”

Aditi Das

Plea in SC: Recall Rajeev Dhavan for smoking during virtual court hearing