The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought responses from Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and several others in criminal contempt proceedings against them for allegedly vilifying Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on social media in connection with the liquor policy case, reported Bar and Bench.
A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja asked the alleged contemnors to file their responses within four weeks, according to Live Law. It also directed the registry to preserve copies of the “derogatory” material that led to the proceedings.
On May 14, Sharma initiated the contempt of court proceedings against Kejriwal, Sisodia and another AAP leader, Durgesh Pathak, for allegedly defaming and vilifying her.
The judge had also recused herself from hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s revision petition against their discharge in the liquor policy case.
“It could be that if I keep hearing this case, Arvind Kejriwal and other people might think that I have a grudge against him,” Sharma had said. “That’s why I have thought that this particular case will be heard by some other bench.”
The judge has since transferred the matter to another bench.
The developments came after Kejriwal, Sisodia and Pathak in April boycotted the proceedings before Sharma in the petition filed by the CBI against the trial court order discharging them and several others in the case.
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