The Supreme Court Monday issued a strong warning against what it described as a “growing trend” of litigants and lawyers making “scurrilous and scandalous allegations against the judge when they fail to get favourable orders”.

The bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was hearing the suo motu contempt proceedings initiated against lawyers associated with a transfer petition, which allegedly raised objectionable remarks against Telangana High Court judge Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya.

“Such a practice has to be strongly deprecated,” CJI Gavai said while presiding over the bench, as it accepted an apology from the lawyers.

Taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, CJI Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran on July 29 issued show cause notices to the petitioner

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