{"id":362758,"date":"2025-10-06T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=362758"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:13:43","slug":"ph-hc-condemns-advocate-using-mobile-phone-while-arguing-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/10\/06\/ph-hc-condemns-advocate-using-mobile-phone-while-arguing-court\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Using mobile phone while arguing is discourteous and unprofessional\u2019: Punjab &amp; Haryana HC condemns advocate&#8217;s conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Punjab and Haryana High Court:<\/span> While hearing a petition filed by the petitioner seeking anticipatory bail in FIR under Sections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561745\" target=\"_blank\">409<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561758\" target=\"_blank\">420<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561375\" target=\"_blank\">120-B<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\" target=\"_blank\">Penal Code, 1860<\/a> (&#8216;IPC&#8217;), when his counsel began searching information on his mobile phone while arguing, a Single Judge Bench of Sanjay Vashisth J. criticized his conduct and held that it was unacceptable, discourteous and unprofessional to use mobile phone while addressing the arguments in the Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">In the said petition, there was no disclosure regarding the registration or pendency of any other criminal cases against the petitioner. However, the respondent&#8217;s counsel pointed out that he was involved in another FIR under Sections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561742\" target=\"_blank\">406<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561758\" target=\"_blank\">420<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561860\" target=\"_blank\">506<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\" target=\"_blank\">IPC<\/a> involving similar allegations against him. The petitioner&#8217;s counsel began searching on his mobile phone, during submissions, to figure out the details of the aforementioned FIR.<\/p>\n<p>The Court stated that such a practice was wholly unacceptable for the two following reasons:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>\n<p>The usage of the mobile phone while addressing the arguments in the Court reflected a discourteous and unprofessional attitude which couldn&#8217;t be condoned.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The mobile phones were not considered as professional tools integrated with the office setup and case files during arguments in the Court proceedings like iPads or laptops.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court directed seizure of the said counsel&#8217;s phone till 5.00 PM on the day of hearing and adjourned the matter at hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Ravneet Singh Sandhu v. State (UT of Chandigarh), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/4s4R3bg5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 SCC OnLine P&#038;H 10515<\/a>, decided on 19-9-2025<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the Petitioner:<\/span> Jashan Mehta, Advocate<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the Respondent:<\/span> Balram Singh, Addl. PP, UT, Chandigarh<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Penal Code, 1860 &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"penal code, 1860\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Unlike iPads or laptops, which are considered professional tools integrated with the office setup and case files, mobile phones are not regarded as acceptable devices for use during arguments in the Court proceedings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":362761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[31625,51389,76067,2670,90402],"class_list":["post-362758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-court-proceedings","tag-ipc-1860","tag-justice-sanjay-vashisth","tag-Punjab_and_Haryana_High_Court","tag-use-of-phone-in-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>P&amp;H HC condems advocate on using mobile phone while arguing in Court | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Punjab and Haryana High Court held that it was unacceptable, discourteous and unprofessional for an advocate to use mobile phone while addressing arguments in Court.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/10\/06\/ph-hc-condemns-advocate-using-mobile-phone-while-arguing-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Using mobile phone while arguing is discourteous and unprofessional\u2019: Punjab &amp; 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