The contempt case against Prashant Bhushan is 11 years old.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today requested the help of Attorney General KK Venugopal in an 11-year contempt case against lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan. The higher court asked the Attorney General to help the court decide the most important issues in the 2009 contempt case against Bhushan.
A bench of three judges comprised of Judge AM Khanwilkar, Judge Dinesh Maheshwari and Judge Sanjiv Khanna heard the case today via video conference. The higher court will hear the matter again in the second week of October.
The contempt case involves statements that Prashant Bhushan made during an interview with Tehelka magazine in 2009 when he said that half of India’s 16 top judges were corrupt.
A bank headed by Judge Arun Mishra, who has now retired, had previously brought the case to the Chief Justice, SA Bobde, for constituting an appropriate bank to investigate questions about whether allegations of corruption against a government can be made public. judge before any internal investigation. committee of judges.
“I am short on time because I am resigning from office. This (case) requires a detailed hearing of four to five hours. It is not just a matter of punishment … it is a matter of faith in the institution. I am not saying anything about it. case specifically. When people come to court seeking relief when that faith is affected, that is a problem, “Judge Arun Mishra had said.
This is the second contempt case in the superior court against the 63-year-old attorney. Bhushan was fined Re 1 last month after being found guilty of contempt of court for his tweets in another case.
“My tweets were not intended to disrespect the Supreme Court or the judiciary as a whole, but simply to express my distress, from what I felt it was a departure from his excellent past record,” he said shortly after the court. announced his sentence, adding that “I will respectfully pay the fine.”
“What is very encouraging is that this case has become a watershed moment for freedom of expression and appears to have encouraged many people to stand up and speak out against the injustices in our society,” Bhushan said.
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