Kunal Kamra scandalous tweets: SC order on Friday
The Supreme Court docket will move orders on Friday on the contempt petitions in opposition to comic Kunal Kamra for posting scandalous tweets in opposition to the highest courtroom. Legal professional basic Okay.Okay. Venugopal had already given consent for submitting of the contempt pleas in opposition to Kamra.
A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan and comprising Justices R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah requested advocate Nishant Katneshwarkar to not learn all of the tweets earlier than the bench, because it has already gone via the contents of the plea. After a short listening to within the matter, the bench mentioned it’ll move orders on Friday.
The plea has been filed by legislation college students Shrirang Katneshwarkar, Nitika Duhan, and advocates Amey Abhay Sirsikar, Abhishek Sharan Raskar, and Sattyendra Vinayak Muley. “The alleged contemnor (Kamra) has the next of 1.7 million individuals. The scandalous tweets of the alleged contemnor have been seen by his followers and plenty of of them retweeted the identical”, mentioned the plea. Citing Part 2 (c) (i) of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, the petitioners argued that this part is specific and the tweets revealed by Kamra clearly present he allegedly dedicated gross contempt of the apex courtroom.
The plea emphasised that each follower of Kamra on Twitter should have learn the tweets and greater than 1,000 individuals have retweeted the scandalous tweets. The petitioners insisted that Kamra was absolutely conscious of his motion. “When some individuals tried to make the alleged contemnor conscious in regards to the contempt of this courtroom, the alleged contemnor was impolite, conceited and unapologetic. The conduct of the alleged contemnor exhibits that he has no regard for this courtroom”, mentioned the plea.
The plea contended that the AG by reproducing the tweets noticed that the tweets usually are not solely in dangerous style however clearly cross the road between humour and contempt of the courtroom.
The petitioners mentioned although the Supreme Court docket has let off contemnors previously upon tendering apology, however this case is totally different. “The conduct of the alleged contemnor is so harsh that the alleged contemnor doesn’t deserve any sympathy by the hands of this courtroom even in case of tendering apology. Residents of this nation strongly consider that the individuals just like the alleged contemnor shouldn’t be spared at any price”, mentioned the plea looking for motion in opposition to Kamra.
