The Bombay High Court has directed registration of a suo motu contempt petition against lawyers - Zoheb Merchant and Minal Chandnani, and their client for using a fabricated news article with.
The case concerned the transfer of pleas in a land acquisition case from Itanagar to the Principal Bench. These are administrative decisions and are not meant to cast aspersions on judges at Itanagar, the Court stressed.
After Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, another judge of the Delhi High Court has recused from hearing a plea moved by Asif Iqbal Tanha against leak of his alleged confession statement to media in the.
As a High Court judge, Justice Shah had in 2011 refused to set aside a trial court ruling rejecting an application for deferment of framing of charges in the custodial death case Bhatt was convicted in.