India, April 9 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday initiated criminal contempt proceedings against Satish Salian's lawyer, advocate Nilesh Ojha, for allegedly defaming a high court judge during a press conference earlier this month. The court also ordered a Marathi news channel and YouTube to take down videos with Ojha's comments immediately and also restrained them from uploading them in the future.

"The statements prima facie constitute criminal contempt. We direct [the] registry to issue notice to Mr Ojha", said a five-judge bench of chief justice Alok Aradhe and justices AS Chandurkar, MS Sonak, Ravindra Ghuge, and AS Gadkari. "The statement seems to interfere with the due course of the proceedings and lower its image. The statement ...