HC raps petitioner for terming its order 'obnoxious', 'biased'

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday took to task a petitioner, who in an affidavit had referred to one of its orders as "obnoxious", "biased" and "devoid of merit", asking him to either change what he said or face contempt action.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar was enraged by the petitioner's affidavit, which was filed in response to its queries, including his means of livelihood, the number of PILs he has filed in the last three years and details of the organisation he was employed with.

When the matter was called for hearing, the bench asked petitioner Abhijit Mishra to first read out his affidavit, where at several places he has termed the high court's direction to him as "obnoxious", "biased" and "devoid of merit", and asked him whether he stood by what he has stated.

When Mishra replied in the affirmative, an angry bench said,"Change your affidavit or we will issue contempt."
"All your claims of being an enlightened citizen are completely belied by your statement," the bench said, and added "If you behave like this, we will stop any PIL by you."