The Delhi High Court initiated contempt proceedings against a lawyer for making allegations of a ‘corrupt judiciary.’ The court described the claims as reckless, contemptuous, and scandalous, emphasizing that such statements undermine the integrity of the judicial system.
The Delhi High Court commenced criminal contempt proceedings against a lawyer named Vedant for labeling the judiciary as corrupt.
In an order issued on September 19, Justice Amit Sharma remarked that,
“Vedant had made reckless allegations of corruption in judiciary that are contemptuous, contumacious and scandalous in nature.”
The Court stated,
“The same tantamount to scandalising and lowering the authority of Court. It further tends to interfere with judicial proceedings and administration of justice. In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the present case, after perusing the material placed on record in the present petition, this Court, prima facie, is of the opinion that the respondent has, thus, committed ‘criminal contempt’ as defined in Section 2(c) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971,”
The case is scheduled for further proceedings before the roster bench on November 19, 2025.
This order was made during the hearing of a civil contempt case against Vedant for his repeated non-compliance with an earlier civil court ruling and subsequent filings in related cases.
In January 2024, despite having previously issued an unconditional apology for his allegations against judicial officers, Vedant sent an email containing inflammatory accusations.
He claimed that judges accepted bribes totaling Rs.50 crore to delay justice and used derogatory terms to describe members of the judiciary.
The High Court also noted Vedant’s written submissions in his contempt petition before the Civil Judge of North West Delhi, where he accused opposing counsel and judges of collusion and corruption.
Moreover, in his response to the show cause notice, Vedant persisted in making provocative statements, referring to “judicial terrorism, judicial emergency, judicial corruption and judicial collective conspiracy,” and claimed that the judiciary had “transformed goats into lions and lions into goats.”
After considering these remarks, Justice Sharma initiated criminal contempt proceedings against the lawyer.
The petitioners in the civil contempt case before the High Court were represented by Advocates Sumitra Choudhary, MK Raghav Raman, Nitya Sharma, Jasmine Sheikh, and Mansi Aggarwal, while Vedant appeared in person.
Case Title: Gunjan Kumar & Anr v. Vedant