Delhi High Court sentences YouTuber Gulshan Pahuja to 6 months in jail for calling judiciary ‘dictatorship’

Key points

• The Delhi High Court has sentenced a YouTuber to six months imprisonment after finding him guilty of criminal contempt for “personally attacking" certain judicial officers and "lowering" the dignity of the judicial system.
• The YouTuber, Gulshan Pahuja, has also been fined Rs.2000 each contempt matter by the Delhi HC bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja.
• YouTuber found guilty of contempt Pahuja, who runs a YouTube channel called 'Fight 4 Judicial Reforms' landed in trouble with the Delhi HC over allegations he made against judicial officers in a recent case.
• Also Read | Delhi HC judge Swarana Kanta Sharma recuses from excise policy case: Report The Delhi HC, which took suo motu cognizance of the matter, observed that the content on Pahuja’s channel was not protected as "free speech" under the Constitution.
• The court held that while a disgruntled litigant may sometimes vent out his frustration by making...