India, Sept. 21 -- The Delhi high court on Monday granted four weeks to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders to file their response in a criminal contempt case initiated against them by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma over alleged defamatory social media posts targeting her.

A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Arun Bhardwaj also permitted Kejriwal and the other AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Vinay Mishra and Durgesh Pathak, to approach the judicial registrar for copies of documents and other material that formed the basis of the contempt proceedings but had not yet been supplied to them.

The direction came after senior advocate Vikram Chaudhary, appearing for Kej...