The Principal District and Sessions Judge of Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court on Thursday lambasted and warned an advocate with contempt proceedings for misbehaviour during the hearing on a case linked with the death of three Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants in a coaching centre due to drowning in the capital’s Old Rajender Nagar.
Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna, in a strongly worded rebuke, warned advocate Abhijit Anand not to misbehave in her court or she would invoke contempt of court against him.
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“Sochna bhi mat ki meri court me badtamizi kr sakte ho (Don’t even think you can misbehave in my court). My staff has been telling me you have been misbehaving with them too since this morning,” the court responded over the advocate’s repeated interruption, as reported by new agency ANI.
Advocate Abhijit Anand was representing the father of one of the UPSC aspirants, Nevin Dalvil, who have drowned at the Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Delhi’s Old Rajender Nagar last month. He had moved an application seeking a direction for the summoning of a building sanction plan of the basement and third floor of the building where the tragic incident took place on July 27.
As per the news agency, the application was marked for hearing with an additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM), but advocate Anand insisted that a district judge should hear it.
When the court assigned his application to another court, he objected and asked the court to dismiss his application and not refer it to another court. “It is my right to be heard. I want to make submissions,” he said.
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However, when the court said that his application had been marked to another court where related applications were being heard, he insisted that the court either hear his application or dismiss it.
The application moved by Anand sought the sanctioned building plan of the basement, and third floor including the drain, and the lease deed of the third floor of the building in which the coaching was being run. The application stated these documents have a ‘direct connection’ with the case and are ‘very relevant’, thus necessary and desirable in the proceeding.
What happened at Rau’s academy?
Three students drowned to their death in the basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle coaching centre after it was flooded due to heavy rain on July 27. The basement was eight feet below the ground level and several students were present in it when the incident took place.
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Disaster rescue teams retrieved the bodies of two females and one male from the site after seven hours. Police identified the victims as Shreya Yadav (25) of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni (25) from Telangana and Navin Dalwin (28) from Ernakulam in Kerala.
The owner and coordinator of the coaching centre were arrested and booked under charges of culpable homicide among others. Police identified the owner as Abhishek Gupta and the other accused as Deshpal Singh.
(With inputs from ANI)
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