NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea alleging former IPL chairman Lalit Modi made some scurrilous remarks in a social media post against former Attorney General and senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narsimha and J B Pardiwala.
Sibal said in this matter, there is a family dispute, the Modi family dispute and there was an undertaking given before the court that no statements will be made on social media but scurrilous statements have been made against my colleague.
This cannot be allowed, it is a violation of the court's order," Sibal claimed.
The bench said it would put the matter for consideration on Friday next.
In August last year, the apex court had appointed former top court judge Justice R V Raveendran as a mediator to settle the family property dispute involving the former IPL head and his mother Bina Modi, wife of late industrialist K K Modi.
Rohatgi is one of the lawyers representing Bina Modi in the dispute.
In an Instagram post, Modi had made some comments against Rohatgi. However, subsequently, in another post, he reportedly had apologised to the senior advocate.
