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Earlier, the HC had initiated contempt cases against lawyer Satish Uke thrice. Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday witnessed some drama after the judges took a lawyer in judicial custody for labelling “baseless allegations” against sitting judges. Abiding by cardinal principal that sentencing contemnor should be avoided if he tenders an unconditional apology, we drop the contempt notice issued against him,” the judges noted. As per his request, the entire proceedings were being video graphed.This is second time in recent times that the HC has initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against a lawyer for similar reasons. His repeated outburst against them led Haq and Joshi to initiate new suo motu contempt proceedings against him.The justices awarded judicial custody to him and directed him to tender an unconditional apology..