India, May 19 -- The Delhi high court on Tuesday issued notice to former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party leaders in a criminal contempt case that Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma initiated against them over alleged defamatory social media posts targeting her.

A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja directed Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Saurabh Bharadwaj, and Vinay Mishra to file their responses in four weeks and fixed August 4 as the next date of hearing.

The court said it would appoint an amicus curiae in the matter and directed the registry to preserve copies of the social media posts and other relevant records and place them before the bench. "In the judgment, the single judge has placed r...