On 9 February 2021, Indian advocate Vijay Singh Yadav was arrested for sending a birthday wish to a judge.
[3][4][5] Vijay Singh Yadav is a lawyer who practiced in the Ratlam District court in Madhya Pradesh,[6] who sent the greeting of issue in this case.
[3] The 37-year-old lawyer allegedly downloaded a photo of Judicial Magistrate First Class Mithali Pathak[1][7][8] from her facebook account and used it to make a greeting card which he then sent to her on her official email address on 29 January.
[6] Subsequently, a first information report was lodged on charges of, inter alia, sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (Forgery of valuable security), and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) of the Indian Penal Code, as well as various provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
[14] The high court ordered a medical examination of Yadav to check his mental health, and said his actions caused great embarrassment to the judge.