Revealing opinion or bona fide suffering, nevertheless outspoken, disagreeable or unpalatable, can not constitute contempt amounting to scandalising the court, kept in mind civil rights attorney Prashant Bhushan has stated in a reply to a contempt notification issued to him by the Supreme Court.
” Chief Justice is not the court, and raising concerns of issue regarding the way in which a CJI performs himself during ‘court getaways’, or raising problems of grave issue regarding the manner in which four CJIs have actually utilized, or failed to use, their powers as ‘Master of the Lineup’ to enable the spread of authoritarianism, majoritarianism, stifling of dissent, prevalent political imprisonment, and so on, can not and does not amount to ‘scandalising or reducing the authority of the court,'” Mr. Bhushan competed.
