Delhi HC sentences YouTuber guilty of criminal contempt to six months jail
The Delhi High Court has sentenced YouTuber Gulshan Pahuja to six months in prison for criminal contempt due to his videos attacking judicial officers. The court found that Pahuja's actions lowered the dignity of the judicial system and showed no remorse. His sentence will be suspended for 60 days to allow him to appeal to the Supreme Court.
- ▪Gulshan Pahuja was sentenced to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.
- ▪The court stated that Pahuja's videos personally attacked judicial officers and undermined the authority of the court.
- ▪Pahuja intends to challenge the decision and will not seek a reduction of his sentence.
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The Delhi High Court has sentenced a YouTuber to six months imprisonment in contempt cases over his videos that “personally attacked” certain judicial officers and “lowered” the dignity of the judicial system.A bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja said Gulshan Pahuja neither showed any regret nor suggested any “course correction”, and not punishing him might embolden him.“In fact, he maintains that what he did was with the intent of improving the judicial system. He, in fact, compounds his contempt by making further scandalous submissions before this court and thus, evidently, he is neither repentant nor deserves any mercy,” the bench observed.In his YouTube channel “Fight 4 Judicial Reforms”, Mr.
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