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Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) said she "cannot enactment silent" and volition initiate contempt proceedings against immoderate of the discharged accused successful the liquor argumentation lawsuit for posting vilifying and defamatory worldly against her.
Justice Sharma said she volition pronounce an bid connected this facet astir 5 p.m.
"It has travel to my announcement that highly vilifying, highly contemptuous, and defamatory worldly is being posted by immoderate of the respondents against maine and against this tribunal and I cannot enactment silent. I person decided to gully contempt proceedings against immoderate of the respondents and immoderate different contemnors," the Judge said.
The tribunal was proceeding CBI's petition challenging the proceedings court's bid discharging erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his lawman Manish Sisodia and 21 others successful the liquor argumentation case.
The tribunal had earlier decided to name elder lawyers arsenic amici curiae to correspond the unrepresented respondents, i..e AAP leaders Mr. Kejriwal, Mr. Sisodia and Durgesh Pathak.
During the hearing, Justice Sharma said immoderate elder counsel person "graciously accepted" the court's proposal but successful the meantime, she came crossed the contemptuous material.
Mr. Kejriwal and MLAs person boycotted the proceeding earlier Justice Sharma aft the justice refused to recuse herself connected their applications alleging struggle of involvement and apprehension of bias.
On February 27, the proceedings tribunal discharged Mr. Kejriwal, Mr. Sisodia and 21 others successful the liquor argumentation case, arsenic it ruled that the lawsuit was wholly incapable to past judicial scrutiny and stood discredited successful its entirety.
After Justice Sharma dismissed their applications seeking her recusal successful the lawsuit connected April 20, Mr. Kejriwal, Mr. Sisodia and Mr. Pathak wrote a missive to her, stating they would not look earlier her personally oregon done a lawyer and would travel "Mahatma Gandhi's way of Satyagraha".
On April 5, the tribunal noted that nary appeared for the AAP leaders successful the proceedings and closed their close to record their replies. It, however, stated that it would walk an bid appointing 3 elder lawyers to correspond them.
Mr. Kejriwal, Mr. Sisodia and different respondents claimed that the Judge's children are empanelled cardinal authorities lawyers who person enactment done solicitor wide Tushar Mehta, who appears for the CBI successful the excise case.
On April 20, Justice Sharma junked the recusal plea, saying that judges cannot recuse themselves to fulfill a litigant's unfounded apprehension of bias.
Mr. Pathak, Vijay Nair and Arun Ramchandra Pillai had besides sought her recusal.
