NEW DELHI: A day after it reprimanded a senior Rajasthan official for not wearing “proper dress”, the Supreme Court today said that bureaucrats should wear “sober and decent” dress while appearing in the courts.
Additional Chief Secretary of Urban Development and Housing Department of the State Government Manjit Singh, who appeared before the top court in neatly dressed royal blue suit, apologised unconditionally to the bench for the dress – shirt and trouser, he wore yesterday.
“Irrespective of whether there are rules or no rules, bureaucrats are always expected to wear sober and decent dress, while appearing in courts. It does not matter whether there are administrative instructions or not but there should be a certain level of decency,” a bench of Justice J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said.
The Apex Court observed that the “dress worn by officials in courts is nothing but a symbolic of certain things”. (AGENCIES)
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