Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri’s Unconditional Apology To Court Over Tweet

New Delhi:

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has submitted an unconditional apology to the Delhi Excessive Courtroom for his 2018 allegations {that a} choose was biased in granting aid to activist Gautam Navlakha within the Bhima Koregaon violence case. 

The courtroom had initiated contempt proceedings in opposition to Vivek Agnihotri, author Anand Ranganathan, and information portal Swarajya after paying attention to the remarks in opposition to Justice S Muralidhar, who’s at current the Chief Justice of Orissa Excessive Courtroom. 

On the final listening to, the courtroom requested Vivek Agnihotri to be current in individual on March 16.

At this time, the filmmaker, recognized most not too long ago for ‘The Kashmir Information’. submitted an apology affidavit by means of his lawyer and mentioned he had deleted the tweet in query. Nonetheless, the Amicus Curiae — lawyer appointed by courtroom to help it — mentioned Mr Agnihotri had not deleted it, however Twitter had taken it down.

The remarks — insinuating that the choose was biased for his affiliation with Mr Navlakha’s household — have been made after the courtroom had quashed activist Gautam Navlakha’s home arrest order and transit remand. 

RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy was additionally named over a few of his remarks, however was later dropped from the case as he apologised.

Mr Navlakha, 70, was later arrested in 2020 and is at present in home arrest within the case, which pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches made on the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which Pune police claimed triggered violence the subsequent day close to the Koregaon Bhima struggle memorial on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra metropolis.