The Supreme Court has registered a suo motu criminal contempt case against journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for his August 2020 tweets in which he allegedly criticized the judiciary.
The case was registered by the Supreme Court on the basis of a petition from Aastha Khurana, reported the Bar and Bench.
The Supreme Court registers a suo motu criminal contempt case against Rajdeep Sardesai for tweets allegedly against the judiciary. @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/Jf0gCUO9JE
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The events occurred five months after the attorney general KK Venugopal refused to initiate criminal proceedings against the television presenter on the basis of the same complaint.
In his complaint, the petitioner has referred to two tweets made by Rajdeep in July and August 2020.
While one of the tweets was related to lawyer Prashant Bhushan’s contempt case in which he was fined Re 1, the other tweet was about former Supreme Court Justice Arun Mishra, Bar and Bench reported.
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