India, Aug. 5 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday granted four weeks to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders to file their replies in criminal contempt proceedings initiated by justice Swarana Kanta Sharma over alleged defamatory social media posts targeting her.

A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja also directed the high court registry to supply to Kejriwal and the other AAP leaders the material that formed the basis of the contempt proceedings. The respondents include Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Vinay Mishra and Durgesh Pathak.

The direction came after Kejriwal's counsel, Vikram Chaudhary, along with lawyers representing the other AAP leaders, submitted...