Supreme Court docket will resolve tomorrow if comic Kunal Kamra will face contempt of court docket proceedings
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court docket stated it’s going to pronounce its order tomorrow on a batch of petitions looking for initiation of legal contempt proceedings towards humorist Kunal Kamra for his alleged scandalous tweets towards the Supreme Court docket.
The pleas got here up for listening to earlier than a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan which heard the submissions of advocate Nishant R Katneshwarkar, who appeared for one of many petitioners and claimed that Kunal Kamra had posted a number of tweets scandalous to the judiciary.
“All these tweets are scandalous and we had sought consent from the Lawyer Basic,” Mr Katneshwarkar informed the bench, which additionally comprised justices RS Reddy and MR Shah.
He learn out the letter of Lawyer Basic KK Venugopal, who had granted consent for initiation of legal contempt proceedings towards Kunal Kamra.
The bench requested the lawyer to not learn the alleged contemptuous tweets of the comic within the open court docket, saying they’ve already gone via Mr Venugopal’s letter on the difficulty.
The consent of both the Lawyer Basic or the Solicitor Basic is important underneath part 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 for initiating contempt proceedings towards an individual.
Considered one of petitions have been filed by legislation pupil, Shrirang Katneshwarkar, who has claimed that Kunal Kamra had began publishing tweets on November 11, when the Supreme Court docket was listening to the enchantment of journalist Arnab Goswami towards the Bombay Excessive Court docket’s order rejecting his plea looking for interim bail in a 2018 “abetment to suicide” case.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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