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HC slaps Rs 50,000 fine on Nanded doctor for filming court proceedings

Aurangabad: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on a medical practitioner hailing from Nanded and working in Aurangabad for filming proceedings in the court.

The clerk present in the high court asked the ‘sheristedar’ to seize the phone. The medical practitioner, identified as Vikram Deshmukh, had come along with his friend, whose wife was contesting against her disqualification as sarpanch from Nanded district.



Taking serious cognizance of the act, Justice Ravindra Ghuge initially asked the doctor to pay Rs 1 lakh fine or undergo seven days of imprisonment. The court reduced the fine to Rs 50,000 after the medico apologized for his act.

The HC directed registrar (judicial) to download the video recording conducted by the doctor and preserve the same as well as the mobile phone and his Aadhaar card in the records of the court.

On September 11, a woman petitioner Gangabai Ramrao Kappawar, who was disqualified from the post of sarpanch of a village in Nanded, expressing grave urgency at 5 pm, the matter was placed before the bench of Justice Ghuge for admission and grant of interim relief.

“While the matter was being heard, the clerk noticed a man sitting in the last row was filming the proceeding using his cellphone, following which it was confiscated and produced before the HC,” assistant government pleader Suresh Munde told TOI.

The medico pleaded guilty, apologised and agreed to deposit the amount of Rs 50, 000 as fine in the HC, on or before September 25.

The HC warned, “If the amount is not deposited this court would initiate a contempt proceeding for aggravated contempt against Dr Vikram Deshmukh, besides passing appropriate orders for recovery of amount.”

The HC went on to state that in view of said conduct, this matter will be heard only after the amount of fine is deposited in the HC.

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