A petition has been filed against India Today Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai in the Supreme Court for allegedly scandalizing and criticizing the judiciary by his tweets against the Court and its judges referring to the Prashant Bhushan case.
Astha Khurana, who is the petitioner, has sent an application to Attorney General KK Venugopal seeking his consent for the initiation of contempt proceedings against Sardesai for allegedly disrespecting the Supreme Court. Last month, Venugopal as the supreme court not to punish activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan. He also refused sanction to initiate contempt against actor Swara Bhaskar over alleged tomorrow marks on the Supreme Court Ayodhya verdict, singer comments did not mean to attack the judiciary. The petitioner pointed out many of Sardesai’s tweets. One tweet posted on August 31 about the Prashant Bhushan contempt case, Sardesai said “Breaking: Rs.1 token fine imposed by SC @pbhushan1 in contempt case. if he doesn’t pay it, 3 months jail sentence! Clearly, court looking to wriggle out of an embarrassment of its own making”.
By seeing Sardesai’s tweets, the petitioner contends that he “tried to spread the feeling of no confidence in the honorable Court amongst the public and even stated the apology by the Honourable Court for its recent judgment”.
Heated Courtroom Exchange Between SG Tushar Mehta & Prashant Bhushan in Zinc Disinvestment Matter, SG says, “The lordships must stop him”
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Apr 08, 2021
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On Monday (April 5, 2021), a three judge Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India, SA Bobde heard submissions on the Hindustan Zinc Disinvestment matter. The plea was filed by National Confederation of Officers' Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings. It pertained to questions on Centre’s decision to disinvest in Hindustan Zinc.Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta and Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan were on opposite sides putting forward their contentions. During this,...
Decoding Prashant Bhushan's Controversial Tweets
Legal Insiders
Jan 05, 2021
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Prasant Bhushan had posted two tweets, one on the Supreme Court on June 27, 2020 and the second one on CJI Bobde on June 29, 2020. He was served notice by the apex court on July 22, 2020.The top court had on August 5, 2020 reserved its verdict in the matter after Bhushan defended his two alleged contemptuous tweets saying they were against the judges regarding their conduct in their personal capacity and they did not obstruct administration of justice. The first tweet said: “When...
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