Lawyer sentenced for a week and fined Rs 2,000 for Contempt of Court

In a rarest of rare case when the Court sentence to lawyer, the Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High court on Tuesday sentence one week of jail and Rs 2,000 fine to a lawyer for the contempt of the Court. The court’s judgment came almost 13 years later, and it is one the rarest court sentences.

Who was the accused lawyer?

The accused lawyer named Ramchandra Kisanrao Kagne, who had appeared in the in Parbhani session court on August 7, 2005, in a case of a section of 376 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on behalf of his client.

When the Parbhani session court judge named, Ashok Govindrao Bilolikar, was delivering the judgment and held Ramachandra’s client guilty, he started shouting and called him “bevakoof magistrate” or ‘Idiot Magistrate’. He also threw a steno notebook towards the judge and threatened him.

The case was pending in the high court since several years and the final hearing was held on August 31. The court held the lawyer guilty and considering his age, the court sentenced him one-week jail and a fine of Rs 2,000.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Advocate Mahandra Nirlekar said, “Mr Kagne has been sent to Harsul jail in Aurangabad. Mr Kagne will have to undergo simple imprisonment for two days more if he doesn’t pay up the fine.”

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