Metropolitan Magistrate Ankita Lal refused to hear the plea of Bharti for registration of FIR against police for allegedly implicating him in a molestation case.
The case had come before the magistrate after it was transfered from the court of chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Vivek Kumar Gulia.
Ankita Lal, who wanted to hear the case in December, became the second Metropolitan Magistrate to refuse the matter after another Metropolitan Magistrate Niti Phutela had on November 3 recused herself from hearing Bharti's case over allegedly un-parliamentary language used by his counsel.
Soon after the magistrate was dictating her order after brief hearing of the case, Bharti's counsel took out an audio recorder device and started playing it in the court.
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"Counsel had played the device without any prior permission of the court. Let this device be seized," the magistrate added in her order.
However, Bharti's counsel questioned that under what law can the device be seized and claimed to have permission of District and Sessions Judge R K Gauba and the CMM.