Will Kunal Kamra face disdain for his tweets? To be decided by the Supreme Court tomorrow.
Key points:
- On Thursday, the Supreme Court reserved its judgment on contempt petitions brought against comedian Kunal Kamra.
- On Friday, a bench of judges, Ashok Bhushan, RS Reddy, and MR Shah, will pass the orders.
- In his tweets, which even the Attorney General stated were in “bad taste,” Kamra allegedly criticized the top court.
- The tweets I have recently released have been discovered in violation of court.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court reserved its judgment on contempt petitions brought against comedian Kunal Kamra. Two law students, Shrirang Katneshwarkar well as Skand Bajpai, and a lawyer, Abhijudaya Mishra, lodged petitions alleging the stand-up comedian.
The orders will pass on Friday:
On Friday, a bench of judges, Ashok Bhushan, RS Reddy, and MR Shah, will pass the orders.
For his November 18 tweet, Attorney General K K Venugopal gave his approval last month for pursuing contempt proceedings against Kamra, claiming it was “grossly vulgar as well as obnoxious” and tended to reduce the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
In order to initiate contempt proceedings against an individual, the consent of either the Attorney General or the Solicitor General is required under section 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
Kamra criticized the top court in his tweet:
In his tweets, which even the Attorney General stated were in “bad taste,” Kamra allegedly criticized the top court. Venugopal has also stated that it was a time people realized that it would be punishable by targeting it brazenly.
The petitioners alleged that on November 11, when the top court heard the appeal of reporter Arnab Goswami against the decision of the Bombay High Court to reject his plea seeking provisional bail in the 2018 suicide case, Kamra began publishing tweets.
Kamra declined to delete his tweets and also to apologize.
Kamra about his tweets:
The tweets I have recently released have been discovered in violation of court. From my point of view, all I tweeted was that the Supreme Court of India gave a partial judgment in pursuit of a Prime Time Loudspeaker,’ he said that in a statement addressed on his Twitter page to Venugopal as well as the judges.
My point of view has not changed, although the silence of the Indian Supreme Court on matters of personal liberty of others cannot go unchallenged. I have no intention of retracting or withdrawing for my tweets. I think they speak for themselves,’ he said.
