Delhi High Court asks Sunita Kejriwal to take down Arvind Kejriwal’s court video from social media

The Delhi High Court has instructed Sunita Kejriwal, wife of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, to remove a video from her social media profiles showing her husband addressing a Delhi court. Additionally, the court has mandated social media platforms to delete posts associated with the video.

The high court has also issued a notice to all the parties in the PIL, filed by advocate Vaibhav Singh, seeking action for violating the court’s video conferencing rules when Kejriwal was produced before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on March 28.

Sunita Kejriwal, along with four others, has been directed by the court to remove their social media posts. The court has scheduled a hearing for July 9. Arvind Kejriwal personally addressed Special Judge Kaveri Baweja on March 28 during his second appearance following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi liquor policy case. After the audio and video recordings of his address circulated widely on social media, Sunita Kejriwal shared the visuals by retweeting them.

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Legal Proceedings and Social Media Restrictions

The Delhi high court asked X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to take down videos with similar content when it is brought to their notice.

A division bench comprising Justices Neena Bansal Krishna and Amit Sharma issued the notice on the PIL filed by the Delhi-based lawyer, Vaibhav Singh.

On March 21, Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the excise policy scam after he ignored nine summonses sent by the agency. The Delhi high court later upheld the agency’s action.

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Arvind Kejriwal later moved the Supreme Court against his arrest.

In May, the Supreme Court granted Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days, to allow him to campaign for his Aam Aadmi Party during the Lok Sabha elections.

He surrendered to the Tihar Jail authorities on June 2, as directed by the Supreme Court.

Sunita Kejriwal, an ex-bureaucrat, had campaigned extensively for the AAP in the Lok Sabha elections. The party, however, couldn’t win even a single seat in the national capital.

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