GUJARAT HC DIRECTS COP WHO SIPPED A DRINK DURING VC HEARING TO DISTRIBUTE COCA-COLA CANS AMONG LAWYERS

16 Feb, 2022

A bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh J. Shastri of Gujarat HC on Tuesday directed “ police officer to distribute 100 cans of coca-cola to the Bar Association or to face disciplinary action as he was sipping a drink during a VC hearing” for the online hearing of a case in which he has been accused of assaulting two women at a traffic junction. During this incident, Chief Justice Aravind Kumar called out AGP DM Devnani and asked him "is it the way in which an officer...if he was in court, would he have come with a coca-cola can?"to which AGP tendered apology before the bench.