The Supreme Court in the case Ravindra Shah v State of Maharashtra observed wherein the suo-moto proceedings were initiated in the matter of an Advocate whose name was being recorded as ‘Mr Put Mine, Advocate’ in the record of the proceedings, wherein the court remarked the incident as an unintentional mistake.
However, the court observed that the said incident garnered a lot of attention as a picture of the record of proceedings was widely circulated through WhatsApp and through other social media platforms.
The bench headed by Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Sanjay Karol in the case observed and has noted that it causes a lot of embarrassment to Supreme Court. Thus, the court stated that the mistake being unintentional and due to an inadvertence, as the mistake done did not have any motive or mala fide intention.
In the present case, the Advocate on Record, whose name was being recorded as Mr Put Mine appeared before the Apex Court along with Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi and Senior Advocate K.V. Viswanathan, wherein it has been submitted by both of them before the court that the error was caused on account of unintentional mistake committed by the clerk of the Advocate on Record in forwarding the WhatsApp message which is being received from the Advocate who wanted his name and the same is to be kept in record of the said Proceeding.
The court also observed that the message was being received by the Clerk tthrough WhatsApp was Put Mine though actually what he was trying to communicate was that his name be also recorded in the proceeding.
The bench in the case also noted that the Advocate who being a young lawyer had tendered an unqualified apology for the embarrassment being which was caused due to him to the Apex Court, wherein it has been stated that the said mistake was bonafied.
Accordingly, the court closed the matter both on judicial as well as administrative side
