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Top Law Officer Allows Contempt Proceedings Against Comedian Kunal Kamra


Kunal Kamra faces contempt proceedings for his tweets

New Delhi:

Lawyer Common KK Venugopal in the present day gave consent for contempt proceedings towards comic Kunal Kamra for his November 18 tweet, saying it was “grossly vulgar and obnoxious” and tended to decrease the authority of the Supreme Court docket.

The highest regulation officer final week allowed contempt proceedings towards Mr Kamra for his earlier tweets that criticised the Supreme Court docket, saying they have been in “unhealthy style” and it was time folks understood that attacking the highest courtroom overtly might be punished.

The consent of both the Lawyer Common or the Solicitor Common is important, underneath Part 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, for contempt proceedings towards an individual.

Mr Venugopal gave the contemporary consent on a request by Prayagraj-based advocate Anuj Singh.

“I’ve gone by means of your request for consent underneath Part 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 towards Kunal Kamra in respect of the tweet dated November 18, 2020 (at 9.46 PM),” the Lawyer Common stated in his letter to Mr Singh.

“The stated tweet is grossly vulgar and obnoxious, and I’ve little question that it will are inclined to decrease the authority of the Supreme Court docket of India in addition to undermine the arrogance that the litigant public have within the establishment of the Supreme Court docket of India itself,” the highest regulation officer stated.

“In view of the above, I accordingly grant consent underneath part 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1975,” Mr Venugopal stated.

Armed with the consent granted earlier by the Lawyer Common, a petition was filed within the Supreme Court docket on November 13 looking for legal contempt proceedings towards Mr Kamra for his alleged “scandalous tweets” towards the Supreme Court docket.

The petition stated Mr Kamra began tweeting on November 11 when the Supreme Court docket was listening to the enchantment of Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami towards the Bombay Excessive Court docket’s order rejecting his plea looking for interim bail in an abetment to suicide case filed in 2018.

The petition stated that after the Supreme Court docket granted interim bail to Mr Goswami on November 11, Mr Kamra “once more revealed numerous tweets and thereby scandalised” the Supreme Court docket and “additional lowered” its authority.

Whereas granting consent earlier, Mr Venugopal had stated folks imagine they’ll “boldly and overtly condemn” the Supreme Court docket and its judges by exercising their freedom of speech, however underneath the Structure, freedom of speech is topic to the regulation of contempt.

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