On behalf of all the police personnel, then Superintendent of Police N Sivadasan submitted before the bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sathish K Agnihotri and Justice K K Sasidharan, an unconditional apology and also assured the Court that it will not happen in future.
Senior Advocate Arvind P Dattar, who was appointed as amicus curiae by the court, submitted that it was an aberration and what happened was most unfortunate and wrong.
After that bench also warned that it would view seriously if such things happened in future and reserved its orders on the suo motu contempt proceedings.
Some police personnel had staged a dharna in the court verandah of the Chief Judge, Puducherry, on December 19, 2008 after he rejected the bail plea of sub-inspector Sridhar, who was arrested by CBI under Prevention of Corruption Act.
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