New Delhi: In an unusual scene inside the Delhi High Court, a lawyer appeared with red tape stuck across his lips, claiming he had been repeatedly silenced midway by the Bench during earlier hearings.

As soon as both matters were called out, advocate R.K. Saini, representing the petitioner side, walked into the courtroom “leisurely with red stickfast tape on his lips”.

Initially believing the advocate might have suffered injuries, a Bench of Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Anish Dayal asked him about the tape.

“It was informed by Mr. Saini that on the last two hearings, he was stopped midway by the Court during his arguments and as such he had placed those red tapes on his lips, symbolising that he had been silenced,” recorded the order passed by the Justice Sambre-led Bench.

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