Former Top Police Officer In India Told To 'Go Sit In The Corner' After Violating An Order In Supreme Court
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – In a putdown rare even for India’s sometimes dramatic court proceedings, the country’s Supreme Court told the former chief of federal police on Tuesday to “sit in one corner” and fined him 100,000 rupees for disobeying the court.
M Nageswara Rao, former chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was given the instruction after being found guilty of violating an earlier order that mandated seeking court permission before taking an investigating officer off a case.
“Please go and sit in one corner till the rising of the court. Fine to be deposited in one week,” Ranjan Gogoi, the court’s chief justice, told him after the court found him guilty of contempt of court.
I just love other countries and how they handle things differently than us. In the U.S. if you’re disruptive or disorderly in court they hold you in contempt and throw you in jail. In India, they make you sit in the corner and don’t let you look at anyone. It’s so demeaning and ruthless that it should be illegal. That’s shit you get told to do in 4th grade when you keep whispering to your friend after being told to stop. Being put in timeout as a kid is tough enough, but being an adult and having it happen in court in a professional setting? I’d rather be in jail to save the public humiliation.
This guy isn’t just some guy either. He is the former TOP police officer in all of the land. His former title was Former Chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation. I assume that’s just India’s version of the FBI. He’s basically a retired Jack Bauer. Yeah that guy got sent to the corner of a court room for disobeying.The ultimate lose-lose. You don’t recover from that psychologically. Just refuse the order and go to jail.