New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- The Delhi High Court on Monday granted four weeks to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders to file their responses in a criminal contempt case initiated against them by justice Swarana Kanta Sharma over allegedly defamatory social media posts targeting her.

A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Arun Bhardwaj also allowed 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 forming the basis of the contempt proceedings that had not been supplied to them.

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