India, Oct. 4 -- Video-conferencing can help with more efficient court proceedings, and reduce security hassles too. But when someone just barges in, and ignores that it's a court - or a public place of any kind at all - it can result in the police coming to get them.

That is what happened to a man named Mohammed Imran from Gokulpuri in New Delhi, who had no business being in front of the judge in any case on the day. He not only came to the camera in his undergarments, but with a cigarettes in hand, and a drink to go with it, an official told news agency PTI on Saturday.

He is a veteran of cases, an active history-sheeter with over 50 previous cases of robbery, snatching, and other offences registered across Delhi, police said.

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