The High Court of Bombay recently refused to hear a case after a lawyer representing the appellant removed his face mask inside a courtroom.
The order of the Feb 22 incident was made available on Saturday.
On Feb 22, a single-Judge bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan was hearing an appeal matter during which the appellant's Lawyer removed his mask in the courtroom contrary to guidelines.
Referring to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) laid down by the high court at the time of resumption of physical hearing of cases, Justice Chavan said that wearing a face mask all the time is compulsory.
Justice Chavan refused to hear this particular case following which it will be listed once again in due course.
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The Order said that "The matter be removed from the board".
Justice Chavan allows only lawyers appearing in a case called out to enter his courtroom while other lawyers & parties have to wait in the adjoining room for their matter to come up as per serial numbers.
The HC & all subordinate courts in Maharashtra, except Pune, had resumed in-person hearings in Dec after a gap of 8 months.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Courts had been conducting hearings online, through video interface.
Maharashtra & Mumbai have been witnessing a surge in fresh coronavirus positive cases since mid-Feb.
As on Feb 26, Maharashtra's case tally stood at 21,38,154 while Mumbai has 3,23,879 cases.
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