2 min readUpdated: May 18, 2026 11:58 AM IST
The Delhi High Court Sunday transferred Rohini court district judge Rakesh Kumar V after a video of him in a heated exchange with the Bar association president went viral. He has been attached with the Director of the Delhi Judicial Academy “in diverted capacity”.
The transfer comes even as the Judicial Service Association of Delhi on Sunday said that it “unequivocally stands in complete solidarity” with the district judge and “all judicial officers are discharging their duties with integrity, independence and courage”.
The HC order follows a demand for transfer, withdrawal of judicial work and an inquiry, by the All District Court Bar Associations, Delhi. The bar associations announced that their members shall abstain from work on Monday.
The Delhi HC order was issued through the Delhi HC registrar general Arun Bhardwaj.
Judicial officer Dheeraj Mittal, Additional Director at Delhi Judicial Academy, will take charge of Judge Kumar’s court in Rohini, as a district judge in “diverted capacity”.
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Meanwhile, the Judicial Service Association, Delhi, has expressed its “strongest condemnation and profound anguish over the shocking incident involving the illegal recording and deliberate circulation of video clips relating to court proceedings conducted by Shri Rakesh Kumar V”. It has requested the Delhi HC to pass “necessary directions for deletion of said video clips from social media platforms”.
The association also objected to the “clandestine recording of judicial proceedings and making the same viral on social media platforms” as not only “an act of gross impropriety, but a direct assault on the dignity, independence and majesty of the judicial institution”. It termed it to be aimed at subjecting judicial officers to “unwarranted intimidation, vilification and public pressure”.
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However, the Coordination Committee of All District Court Bar Associations, Delhi, termed district judge Kumar’s conduct as “highly objectionable and unbecoming” towards the advocate, who is also the President of the Rohini Court Bar Association.
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