Prashant Bhushan deposits Re 1 fine in contempt case
The Supreme Court recently held Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt for his tweets criticising the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India SA Bobde.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Monday deposited the Re 1 fine imposed on him by the Supreme Court, but said this doesn’t mean that he is accepting the court’s judgement.
Bhushan addressed media persons outside the Supreme Court and said that he is going to record an audit request against the top court’s judgment today.
“I am setting off to the Supreme Court library to store Re 1 fine forced on me comparable to the disdain of legal dispute. That I am keeping the fine doesn’t mean I am tolerating the judgment. I will document an audit appeal against it today,” he said.
He had recorded a new request on Saturday, looking for the privilege of offering against the first criminal scorn cases.
Bhushan has requested that his allure ought to be heard by a bigger and diverse seat of the Supreme Court.
In the request recorded through attorney Kamini Jaiswal, Bhushan has recommended procedural changes to diminish the odds of “subjective, wrathful and oppressive choices” in criminal hatred cases saying that in such cases the top court is the wronged party, the “investigator, the observer and the appointed authority” and thus they raise dread of inborn inclination.
“This would go about as an essential defense against illegitimate conviction and would really empower the arrangement of truth as a safeguard,” Bhushan said in his supplication.
The Supreme Court as of late held Bhushan liable of criminal disdain for his tweets scrutinizing the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. The court had on August 31 forced a symbolic fine of Re 1 as a discipline.
Bhushan was approached to store the sum by with the Supreme Court library by September 15, bombing which he would need to go through a three-month prison term and debarment from law practice for a long time.
Another hatred argument against Bhushan, started by the top court in 2009 for his comments that some previous Chief Justices of India were degenerate, is likewise forthcoming under the steady gaze of the pinnacle court.
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