NEW DELHI: Supreme Court docket Tuesday refused leniency to an advocate, sentencing him to 18 months imprisonment for utilizing abusive language in 2015 to outrage the modesty of a judicial officer in a Delhi courtroom and rejected his plea for lowering the jail time period to the six months already undergone, stories Dhananjay Mahapatra.The advocate, Sanjay Rathod, pleaded with the partial working day bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that he was the only real breadwinner of the household comprising his previous mother and father, spouse and two youngsters and that he was remorseful in regards to the incident. The bench mentioned the Delhi HC has already directed the sentences (18 months for outraging a lady’s modesty and three months every for 2 different challan offences) to run concurrently, thus lowering the entire interval of incarceration from two years to 18 months. It requested the advocate to give up inside two weeks to serve the remaining interval of imprisonment.Justice Manmohan, who was the CJ of Delhi HC previous to appointment as SC decide, mentioned, “In Delhi, girls judicial officers comprise almost 50% of the working power of judges in trial courts. If their dignity just isn’t protected, it’s going to create an unsafe environment within the courtroom”.