Published on : 29 Oct 2025, 3:04 pm 2 min read

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sentenced a businessman to jail for a month after finding him guilty of criminal contempt of court for threatening a court-appointed local commissioner with a gun during a judicial inspection in Faridabad [Court on its own motion v Nitin Bansal] .

A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta also ordered the contemnor, one Nitin Bansal, to pay a fine of ₹2,000 failing which he will spend 15 more days in jail.

“This Court is of the view that the non-cooperative conduct of the Contemnor, coupled with the fact that the gun was placed on the table by him during the course of the proceedings being conducted by the Local Commissioner, as recorded in the report of the Local

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