{"id":1033227,"date":"2026-09-04T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033227"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:49:16","slug":"supreme-court-grants-youtuber-relief-suspends-six-month-sentence-in-contempt-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/04\/supreme-court-grants-youtuber-relief-suspends-six-month-sentence-in-contempt-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court grants YouTuber relief, suspends six-month sentence in contempt case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the six-month simple imprisonment of YouTuber Gushan Pahuja for his remarks against the judiciary and directed his release with a warning that the interim protection could be revoked if he repeats the offence. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu passed the order while dealing with an appeal filed by Pahuja challenging a Delhi High Court division bench order of May 16, which convicted and sentenced him to six months&#8217; imprisonment for uploading videos on YouTube in which he allegedly slammed the judiciary for alleged dictatorship. He had commented that no justice can be expected from the Indian judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the six-month simple imprisonment of YouTuber Gushan Pahuja for his remarks against the judiciary and directed his release with a warning that the interim protection could be revoked if he repeats the offence. A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu passed the order while dealing with an appeal filed by Pahuja challenging a Delhi High Court division bench order of May 16, which convicted and sentenced him to six months&#8217; imprisonment for uploading videos on YouTube in which he allegedly slammed the judiciary for alleged dictatorship. He had commented that no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033239,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033227\/revisions\/1033239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}