New Delhi, March 28 -- Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj on Saturday urged the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Suryakant to take suo motu cognisance and initiate contempt proceedings against Chief Minister Rekha Gupta for referring to a judge as "set."

According to the Aam Aadmi Party, Saurabh Bharadwaj stated that the CM's remarks were part of a deliberate conspiracy to portray the judiciary as corrupt and normalise such claims.

Citing the Supreme Court's earlier intervention in the NCERT "Corruption and Judiciary" chapter for Class 8, the AAP Delhi Unit Chief said the present case similarly warranted judicial action, and called on the Court to set a precedent to deter constitutional authorities from making s...