In a punishment reminiscent of a classroom rebuke, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered then acting CBI Director M Nageswara Rao and agency's legal advisor S Bhasuram to sit in the courtroom till the rising of the court after holding them guilty of its contempt. The apex court also imposed a fine of '1 lakh on each of them.

It held them guilty of its contempt for wilfully disobeying its order by transferring CBI Joint Director A K Sharma, who was probing the Bihar shelter home sexual assault cases, as additional director general of CRPF on January 17.