The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted two weeks’ time to Advocate Nilesh Ojha facing contempt proceedings for his “scandalous and defamatory” remarks against a sitting HC judge during a press conference related to the Disha Salian death case.
A special five-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justices A S Chandurkar, M S Sonak, Ravindra Ghuge and Ajey Gadkari, granted two weeks’ time to Ojha and kept the matter for hearing on June 17 after Ojha’s Advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, sought time to file an application seeking discharge of contempt proceedings.
The court was hearing a suo motu (on its own) contempt proceedings against Advocate Ojha.
On April eight, the HC had noted that the lawyer’s statements in the conference held on April one were “ex-facie contemptuous.”
The bench directed YouTube (Google LLC) and a Marathi news channel to “forthwith” remove the video of the press conference and all related material.
Disha Salian’s father, Satish Salian, had approached the high court last month through Ojha, seeking a fresh probe into the mysterious circumstances under which his daughter was found dead.
Disha, manager of the late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, died on June eight, 2020, after falling off the 14th floor of a residential building in suburban Malad.
