{"id":280050,"date":"2025-04-12T01:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/up-lawyer-calls-judges-goondas-during-courtroom-drama-over-unbuttoned-shirt-gets-6-months-jail-term\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:44:19","slug":"up-lawyer-calls-judges-goondas-during-courtroom-drama-over-unbuttoned-shirt-gets-6-months-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/up-lawyer-calls-judges-goondas-during-courtroom-drama-over-unbuttoned-shirt-gets-6-months-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"UP lawyer calls judges &#8216;goondas&#8217; during courtroom drama over unbuttoned shirt; gets 6 months&#8217; jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UP lawyer calls judges &#8216;goondas&#8217; during courtroom drama over unbuttoned shirt; gets 6 months&#8217; jail term\" title=\"UP lawyer calls judges &#8216;goondas&#8217; during courtroom drama over unbuttoned shirt; gets 6 months&#8217; jail term\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"17\">The <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lucknow-bench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lucknow bench<\/a> of the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/allahabad-high-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allahabad High Court<\/a> has dropped the gavel hard on <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ashok-pande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashok Pande<\/a>, a local lawyer, reported TOI.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday sentenced local advocate Ashok Pande to six months\u2019 simple imprisonment in a contempt case that started with a rather unorthodox courtroom appearance \u2014 shirt unbuttoned, no robe, and a heated exchange with the judges.<\/p>\n<p>According to TOI, the incident dates back to August 18, 2021, when the court initiated <i>suo motu<\/i> contempt proceedings against Pande. <\/p>\n<p>According to the bench, not only did he show up inappropriately dressed, but when objected to, he misbehaved and allegedly called the judges \u201cgoondas\u201d before being asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The division bench, comprising Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice BR Singh, didn\u2019t take kindly to the conduct. In its verdict, the court noted that despite repeated chances, Pande chose not to reply to the contempt charges \u2014 a decision that clearly didn\u2019t work in his favour, said TOI.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1--><br \/>In addition to the six-month sentence, the court imposed a fine of Rs 2,000. Failure to pay will earn him another month behind bars. Pande has been given four weeks to surrender before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Lucknow.The court also issued a show-cause notice asking why Pande should not be barred from practicing in the Allahabad High Court and its Lucknow bench. He has until May 1 to respond.TOI further reported that the order pointed out that this isn\u2019t Pande\u2019s first brush with contempt. In fact, he was previously banned from entering court premises for two years back in 2017 due to similar behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the court made it clear: if you&#8217;re going to step into the courtroom, leave the theatrics \u2014 and the unbuttoned shirts \u2014 at the door.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/up-lawyer-calls-judges-goondas-during-courtroom-drama-over-unbuttoned-shirt-gets-6-months-in-jail-term\/articleshow\/120201439.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has dropped the gavel hard on Ashok Pande, a local lawyer, reported TOI. The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday sentenced local advocate Ashok Pande to six months\u2019 simple imprisonment in a contempt case that started with a rather unorthodox courtroom appearance \u2014 shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[23736,216703,1187,192995,59347,216706,216702,7468,216707,9197,8816,216705,6048,216704,91418,31,10479,6185,216708],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280052,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280050\/revisions\/280052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}