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Ahmedabad, June 27: In a bizarre twist to digital justice, a man landed in hot water after attending a Gujarat High Court hearing — from a toilet.

The man, identified in the Zoom call as ‘Samad Battery’, appeared on screen seated on a toilet with earphones on, blissfully unaware (or unbothered) that his bathroom break was being live-streamed during a videoconferenced hearing before Justice Nirzar S Desai.

The courtroom carried on with its cheque bounce case arguments as the man — reportedly the complainant in the criminal case — calmly placed his mobile phone on the bathroom floor, cleaned himself, and continued listening in.

The video, which has since gone viral, has left netizens cringing, chuckling, and questioning humanity in equal measure.

The man was appearing as a respondent in a petition seeking to quash an FIR. What he hoped would be a routine appearance turned into a viral cautionary tale.

This isn’t the first such episode in the Gujarat High Court’s virtual chronicles. In March, the court fined a man Rs 2 lakh and sentenced him to community service for attending proceedings from a lavatory. A month earlier, another participant was fined Rs 25,000 for lounging in bed during a hearing.

The message from the bench is getting louder: justice may be blind, but Zoom isn’t — and toilet seats are not court seats.

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