New Delhi Mar 30 PTI An individual approaching a court must come with clean hands and never attempt to pollute the stream of justice by filing a document he knows is fabricated the Supreme Court has said holding a man guilty of contempt and ordering his detentionA bench headed by Justice U U Lalit noted that the man has accepted his guilt right at the initial stage and has tendered an unconditional apologyIt is well settled that a person who comes to the court must come with clean hands and never make even an attempt to pollute the stream of justice by filing a document which he knows to be false or fabricated the bench also comprising Justices S R Bhat and P S Narasimha said in its order passed on TuesdayThe top court noted that the man who was last year granted two weeks to surrender before the court concerned in connection with a matter in Maharashtra had filed an application seeking four weeks more to surrenderAlong with the application he had annexed a laboratory test report under the signature of two doctors which purportedly stated he was COVID-19 positiveThe bench noted that no extension of time to surrender was granted by the top court and after it was pointed out that the report annexed by him was forged notices were issued to the doctors concernedIt said both the doctors had filed affidavit and stated they had never issued any such certificate to the man and that the report filed by him was actually issued to a woman in April last yearThe top court had then issued notice to the man as to why contempt action be not initiated against himThe bench noted that the man has filed an affidavit tendering unconditional apology for filing the fabricated medical certificate in the apex courtHowever considering the fact that he accepted the guilt right at the initial stage and tendered an unconditional apology we impose following sentence the bench said after holding him guilty of having committed contempt of courtIt directed that he shall be taken to the office of the concerned additional registrar in-charge of security where he shall be detained till the rising of the courtThe bench said he shall also pay a fine of Rs 2000 which be deposited in the apex court registry during the course of the dayIt said the registry shall deposit the fine amount in the account of the Supreme Court Legal Services CommitteeThe top court noted that the man had earlier filed a special leave petition SLP challenging the January last year order passed by the Bombay High CourtIt said the apex court had in March 2021 did not find any reason to interfere and the SLP was dismissedThe bench noted that at the request of the counsel appearing for the man he was given two weeks to surrender himself before the court concerned PTI ABA ABA SK SK

New Delhi Dec 20 PTI The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of capital punishment awarded to a man convicted of raping a seven-year-old minor girl in Madhya Pradesh in 2018A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit passed the order while hearing a plea filed by the convict against the Madhya Pradesh High Court verdict which had upheld the death sentence awarded to him and one other convict by the trial court for gang-raping the minorPending further consideration the execution of sentence of death imposed upon the appellant is stayed Let an intimation to that effect be sent to the concerned prison immediately said the bench also comprising Justices S R Bhat and Bela M TrivediThe apex court directed the state to place before it by March 1 2022 the report of probation officer relating to the convict and also the report of jail administration about the nature of work done by him while in prisonThe bench which observed that psychological evaluation report of the convict be obtained asked the director of an Indore-based hospital to constitute a team for his psychiatric evaluationIt said the report be placed before it by March 1The top court said that jail authorities shall co-operate with the team of experts for facilitating access and due evaluation of the convictList for final disposal on March 22 2022 before the appropriate court after seeking requisite directions from the CJI Chief Justice of India the bench said in its December 15 orderThe high court in its verdict delivered in September this year had affirmed the death sentence awarded by the trial court in August 2018 to two convicts in the caseIn June 2018 the grandmother of the girl had lodged a report at a police station in Mandsaur that her granddaughter was missing from her school premises after the classes were over for the dayThe police registered the case and on the next date the girl was found in an injured condition and was taken to a hospitalThe girl was provided treatment and she narrated the incident to the police about she was taken to a secluded spot and was rapedThe trial court after considering the evidence awarded death penalty to the two convictsThe facts of the present case reveal an ominous plot hatched by the appellants seeking to satiate their lust by breaching the confidence of the minor prosecutrix girl and then heaping miseries upon her by committing such forceful aggravated penetrative sexual assault which is most ruthless in nature the high court had said in its verdict while confirming the death sentence PTI ABA SA