Delhi High Court

This episode focuses on a pattern, the weaponisation of public pressure against state institutions, particularly the judiciary. When people with large social media followings launch coordinated campaigns to delegitimise sitting judges, manufacture or manipulate evidence, and publicly refuse to participate in the judicial process, they are not practising Satyagraha. They are systematically undermining public trust in institutions that safeguard ordinary people far more than politicians.

A court cannot be declared illegitimate after you have petitioned it and lost. That is forum shopping wrapped in a khadi shawl, not civil disobedience.

Delhi HC records show that Salim Khan was convicted by the trial court for kidnapping and murdering 13-year-old Sandeep. He was later granted two-week bail by the Delhi High Court while his appeal against conviction remained pending. He did not surrender after the bail period ended and remained on the run for 26 years.