India, Aug. 14 -- A surgeon on trial for murder threw rice on the courtroom floor in Delhi on Monday, purportedly to perform "black magic", after which the court convicted him of disrupting proceedings. The accused, Chander Vibhash, allegedly committed a murder in Hari Nagar, west Delhi in 2011, and the trial is currently in the prosecution evidence stage.

The incident took place inside a courtroom at Tis Hazari Court before additional sessions judge Shefali Barnala Tandon. The accused was present in the court while the judge was summoning nodal officers of broadband networks with the requisite records pertaining to the case, when staff and lawyers saw the accused throw some rice on the floor under the dais.

After the judge questioned t...