India, Aug. 28 -- 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 appr...