Delhi High Court slaps ₹50k costs on litigants for cooking up "imaginary story" of judge bias

Published on : 03 Oct 2025, 9:28 am 2 min read

The Delhi High Court recently imposed costs of ₹50,000 on two litigants who sought transfer of a case pending before a district court on the ground that the trial judge allegedly addressed the opposite party in a “friendly manner” inside the courtroom [Neeti Sharma & Anr. Vs Kailash Chand Gupta & Ors].

Justice Saurabh Banerjee observed the transfer plea carried misleading and mythical assertions regarding a sitting trial judge without any evidence.

“The petitioners by way of the present petition are trying to cast unwarranted, fictious and fallacious aspersions by making flimsy, misleading and mythical assertions on a sitting Judge of the learned Trial Court, which are not only contrary to the records before this Court but also