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The Delhi High Court connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) issued notices to AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others successful suo motu contempt proceedings initiated by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma implicit an alleged scandalous societal media run targeting her.
A seat of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja issued announcement to the politicians connected the suo motu contempt lawsuit initiated against them by Justice Sharma and granted them 4 weeks to record their response.
“Issue notice. The alleged contemnors volition record their effect wrong a play of 4 weeks from the receipt of notice,” the seat stated, arsenic it listed the lawsuit for adjacent proceeding connected August 4.
Justice Sharma had connected May 14 initiated transgression contempt proceedings against Mr. Kejriwal, Mr. Sisodia and different AAP leaders implicit their “vilifying” societal media posts against her successful narration to the excise argumentation case.
Justice Sharma had asserted that the erstwhile Delhi main curate “orchestrated a calculated campaign” of vilification against her connected societal media alternatively of pursuing his ineligible remedies and clarified that the CBI’s petition against the discharge of each accused persons would present beryllium taken up by different bench.
The justice took objection to respective societal media posts by the projected contemnors that attributed “political allegiance” and “affiliation” to her and allegedly targeted her by posting a misleading “edited” video of a code she gave astatine an acquisition instauration successful Varanasi.
She besides noted the wide circulation of clips from the tribunal proceedings successful the case, stating that the projected contemnors were creating a “parallel narrative”, and that “remaining silent” was not judicial restraint but a “surrender earlier a almighty litigant”.
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 CBI’s petition against their discharge successful the lawsuit connected April 20, Mr. Kejriwal, Mr. Sisodia and Pathak had written a missive to Justice Sharma, stating they would not look earlier her personally oregon done a lawyer and would travel “Mahatma Gandhi’s way of Satyagraha”.
(with inputs from PTI)
