The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held an 81-year-old litigant guilty of criminal contempt for levelling scandalous, uncorroborated allegations of corruption and collusion against sitting and former judges and judicial officers, holding that fair criticism of a judicial order is distinct from imputing dishonest motives to the judge who passed it.
The Bombay High Court has initiated contempt proceedings against Dilip S. Ghumare, Secretary and Senior Legal Advisor of Maharashtra's Law and Judiciary Department, after he responded to the Bench in an "aggressive, high-pitched tone (bordering to shouting)" and publicly blamed the High Court administration during a PIL hearing on judicial appointments.
Delhi High Court rejects a habeas corpus plea by Swatantra Bhardwaj challenging his arrest over the alleged assault of a teenage CJP protester's father at Jantar Mantar, finding his key argument was never raised in the petition itself and the underlying FIR had not been quashed.
Hearing a contempt petition over delay in proceedings against a former minister and IAS officers accused of favouritism in municipal tenders, Madras High Court remarks that it is "very difficult" to get corruption cases registered against powerful men in the country.
Supreme Court permits Himachal Pradesh to withdraw prosecution in the remaining 48 of 63 criminal cases registered against MPs and MLAs over Covid-era dharnas and protests, after the Himachal Pradesh High Court had allowed withdrawal in only 15 of them.