India, Feb. 11 -- An order passed by the presiding judge on the day of the incident has shed light on the sequence of events and the chaos that unfolded inside a courtroom at Tis Hazari Courts where a brawl erupted between legal teams during a hearing last week, prompting Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday to take a stern view of the incident.

Additional sessions judge (fast track court) Harjeet Singh Jaspal, in a February 7 order, stated the incident occurred around 10.15am in Tis Hazari Courtroom No. 179. The judge had briefly stepped out and returned to find a "fist battle" underway, according to the order. "Blows were being exchanged from both sides despite intervention of the court and court staff," the order noted, a...