New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar has moved the Delhi High Court against a trial court decision convicting him for impersonating a Supreme Court judge to influence a special judge for bail in a 2017 corruption case.
Chandrasekhar has sought the deletion of the "derogatory, pejorative, stigmatic and unnecessary observations" on his character in the trial court's judgment.
He has said in his plea that the trial court has repeatedly characterised him in terms that are "wholly unnecessary for adjudication".
Chandrasekhar has asserted that the trial court's judgment is contrary to the fundamental requirement that a case must be adjudicated upon evidence and not on an assumed character of the accused.
The trial court approached the case with a "predetermined and adverse mindset", and denied him the opportunity to complete defence evidence, the plea has said.
The case arose from a 2017 call Chandrasekhar allegedly made from police custody by impersonating a Supreme Court judge to contact a special judge. The trial court convicted him of impersonation, threatening a public servant and criminal intimidation, calling it a "direct affront" to judicial independence.
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