A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja of the Delhi High Court is likely to hear on Tuesday the suo motu criminal contempt of court case initiated against Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders.

The Justice Chawla-led bench currently holds the criminal contempt of court roster.

Contempt proceedings have been initiated against the politicians for their "defamatory and vilifying allegations" against Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, who was hearing the challenge filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to the discharge of Kejriwal and others in the excise policy case.

Justice Sharma took note of these allegations and initiated the contempt proceedings against Kejriwal and others.

Pertinently, in light of the initiation of the contempt case, the judge directed that the excise policy case be transferred to some other Bench since Kejriwal and Sisodia are accused in that case.

Kejriwal, Sisodia and Pathak had earlier sought Justice Sharma's recusal. However, Justice Sharma rejected their recual application on April 20.

The judge in that order said that a politician cannot be allowed to sow seeds of mistrust and that the application seeking her recusal amounted to putting the judiciary on trial.

Various posts had appeared on social media against Justice Sharma before and after the order passed by her, prompting her to initiate the contempt of court proceedings today.

In her detailed order initiating the proceedings, Justice Sharma also took note of the letters written by Kejriwal, Sisodia and Durgesh Pathak boycotting the proceedings and the video published by Kejriwal detailing his reasons to boycott the case before Justice Sharma.