Noted civil rights attorney Prashant Bhushan preserved in the Supreme Court that his tweets in June of a photo showing Chief Justice Sharad A. Bobde astride a bike and the court’s function in the previous 6 years totaled up to ‘criticism’ and not contempt.
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” This is criticism … Why do not you take it objectively?” senior supporter Dushyant Dave, for Mr. Bhushan, asked a three-judge Bench led by Justice Arun Mishra on Wednesday.
Mr. Dave said a sitting judge, who went on to end up being a CJI, had ‘criticised’ the performance of the Supreme Court in a presser in January2018 Justice Ranjan Gogoi, among the four judges who had actually satisfied the media, went on to become the 46 th Chief Justice and Justice Bobde’s immediate predecessor.
Justice Mishra asked whether Mr. Dave was validating journalism conference or what was stated in it.
” The holding of January 2018 press conference was completely justified. If the then CJI was not listening to their points, what could they do? If citizens stand and criticise the system, state whatever is not hunky-dory, how can it be contempt?” the senior legal representative asked.
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