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‘Disgraceful’: MP high court reports lawyer’s outburst to chief justice Kait
justice Anuradha Shukla recorded lawyer PC Paliwal’s remarks made in Hindi in her order and requested that the order be placed before chief justice Kait
BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh high court at Jabalpur has flagged a lawyer’s outburst to chief justice Suresh Kumar Kait, underlining that the lawyer made “disgraceful and contemptuous remarks” during court proceedings on March 22.
In a brief order, justice Anuradha Shukla recorded lawyer PC Paliwal’s remarks made in Hindi in her order and requested that the order be placed before chief justice Kait.
“In the light of statement made by counsel for the appellant it is evident that he is making disgraceful and contemptuous remarks against this Court, therefore, it would be appropriate that certified copy of this order is placed before Hon’ble the Chief Justice for his kind perusal and needful,” justice Shukla said in her order.
The order came after Paliwal, who appeared before the court for hearing in a criminal revision appeal filed in 2024 by Chhindwara residents Rajhans Bagade and Vijay, started arguing over delay in the hearing the case and said the case should be transferred to another bench.
According to the order, Paliwal said: “This drama has been going on in this court for the past four hours and I am watching it. Judges go to other places and seek appointment of new judges but look at the condition of the judges, what happened in Delhi (referring to alleged cash discovery row involving former Delhi high court judge justice Yashwant Varma) should also be seen. This pressure is increasing, and we are being harassed. I will go this evening and speak to (chief minister) Mohan Yadav. This case has come up 20 times, and it was finally listed today with great difficulty. I do not want to argue my case in this chaos; it should be sent to another bench.”
Paliwal declined to comment on the incident after the court order.
According to the high court’s website, Paliwal’s case had previously come up on January 8. According to the order passed at the time, the case came up before justice Devnarayan Mishra who admitted the appeal for hearing and issued orders for requisitioning the records.
(With inputs from Monika Pandey in Jabalpur)
