NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday he said that he will issue his order on Friday on a batch of petitions seeking the initiation of criminal proceedings for contempt of stand-up comic book artist Kunal Kamra for his alleged scandalous tweets against the Supreme Court.
The pleas came to a hearing before a bank headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan that he heard presentations from attorney Nishant R. Katneshwarkar, who appeared for one of the petitioners and claimed that Kamra had posted several scandalous tweets for the judiciary.
“All these tweets are scandalous and we had requested the consent of the attorney general“Katneshwarkar told the court, which also included Justices RS Reddy and MR Shah.
Read the Attorney General’s letter KK Venugopal, who had consented to the initiation of criminal proceedings for contempt of Kamra.
The court asked the lawyer not to read the cartoonist’s alleged derogatory tweets in public hearing, saying that they had already reviewed Venugopal’s letter on the matter.
The consent of the attorney general or attorney general is required under section 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act 1971 to initiate contempt proceedings against a person.
One of the petitions was filed by law student, Shrirang Katneshwarkar, who claimed that Kamra had started posting tweets on November 11, when the high court was hearing the journalist’s appeal. Arnab goswami against Bombay High CourtThe order rejecting his guilty plea seeking provisional bail in a 2018 suicide incitement case.
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