NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday refused leniency to an advocate, sentencing him to 18 months imprisonment for using abusive language in 2015 to outrage the modesty of a judicial officer in a Delhi courtroom and rejected his plea for reducing the jail term to the six months already undergone, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.
The advocate, Sanjay Rathod, pleaded with the partial working day bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that he was the sole breadwinner of the family comprising his old parents, wife and two children and that he was remorseful about the incident.