The Supreme Court docket right now(September 3) suspended the sentence of six months’ simple imprisonment imposed by the Delhi Excessive Court docket on YouTuber Gulshan Pahuja for making movies scandalising the judiciary.
A bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu handed the order whereas issuing discover on Pahuja’s attraction after listening to Advocate Manish. The bench has ordered that the petitioner be launched from custody instantly.
The Excessive Court docket had initiated suo motu contempt in opposition to the YouTuber. A division bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja in Could noticed that Pahuja had proven “no remorse” or “course correction” regardless of being discovered responsible of felony contempt.
The Excessive Court docket famous that in the course of the listening to on sentence, Pahuja once more made “scandalous remarks” in opposition to the judicial system, together with statements that he anticipated no justice from Indian courts and likening judicial arbitrariness to “dictatorship”.
Pahuja had mentioned that he expects no justice from the Indian judicial system and said ‘adaalaton ki manmarzi badhti jaa rahi hai aur fundamental koi nyay ki umeed nahi kar raha’ and likewise said ‘manmarzi ka dusra arth taanashahi hota hai’.
“The contemnor exhibits no remorse for a similar. He additionally doesn’t counsel any course correction,” the Excessive Court docket noticed, including that he had in actual fact “compounds his contempt by making additional scandalous submissions earlier than this Court docket”. The bench additional mentioned that failure to impose ample punishment might “encourage him to repeat these acts in future and to embolden him in doing the identical.”
Accordingly, the Excessive Court docket imposed the “most punishment” of six months’ easy imprisonment together with a high quality of Rs. 2,000 in every contempt case, with sentences directed to run concurrently.
Nonetheless, since Pahuja expressed his intention to problem the judgment earlier than the Supreme Court docket, the Excessive Court docket suspended the sentence for 60 days below Part 19(3) of the Contempt of Courts Act.
Case Particulars: GULSHAN PAHUJA Vs HIGH COURT OF DELHI|Diary No. 37740 / 2026
AoR Jugul Kishor Gupta
