A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra requested a the single judge bench of the High Court to take an appropriate view of the matter having regard to the fact that the mistake was committed by a junior at the bar.
Nawab Malik was arrested in February 2022 in connection with a money laundering case and had approached the Supreme Court challenging a July 13, 2023, order of the Bombay high court refusing him bail.
Earlier on December 21, 2023, the tech company had sought an interim stay on all recovery proceedings initiated against it and offered to pay the base amount of Rs 1,500 crore in cash.
Justice Mehta said that the case is a gross contempt of the Court’s order on record. He added that the very filing of the remand application was a contempt on the face of it.