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Contempt of court case against Prashant Bhushan: A bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Justice BR Gavai and Justice Krishna Murari has held Advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt for allegedly making two derogatory tweets to the judiciary.

Hard action is seen appearing on senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. The Supreme Court of India has held Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt. Now his sentence will be debated on 20 August. The Supreme Court has held Bhushan guilty of contempt in the self-initiated contempt proceedings against advocate Prashant Bhushan for allegedly making two derogatory tweets towards the judiciary. A bench of Justice Arun Mishra, Justice BR Gavai and Justice Krishna Murari held Bhushan guilty in the case.

The court, while completing the hearing in the case on August 5, said that a decision on this will be given later. Earlier, advocate Prashant Bhushan defended the two tweets which allegedly defamed the court. He said that those tweets were about his personal level of conduct against the judges and they do not obstruct the administration of justice.

Court issued notice

The court had on July 22 issued a show-cause notice to Prashant Bhushan in this case. While completing the hearing, the bench dismissed the application filed separately to withdraw the July 22 order. According to this order, the notice was issued, commencing contempt proceedings on two tweets allegedly defaming the judiciary. The bench did not agree with the argument of senior advocate Dushyant Dave, who was favoring Bhushan during the hearing, that the separate application objected to the manner in which the contempt process was initiated without taking the opinion of Attorney General KK Venugopal and referred to it the other bench.

The court rejected the petition

Bhushan had also requested a system of accepting the flawed contempt petition filed against him by the Secretary-General of the Supreme Court for the allegedly unconstitutional and unlawful manner in which the petition was initially placed with the administrative side and later with the judicial side. The court had said in the order, ‘Heard the senior advocate (Dave) appearing in the case. We do not see a basis for hearing this writ petition and hence it is dismissed.

The lawyer said on Bhushan’s tweet

Dave then argued in a contempt case filed against Bhushan and said, ‘Two tweets were not against the institution. They were against private conduct against judges in their personal capacity. They are not malicious and do not obstruct the administration of justice. ‘ He had said, “Bhushan has contributed immensely in the development of jurisprudence and he is credited with at least 50 judgments”. Dave said that the court has appreciated his contribution to the Toji, coal mine allocation scam, and mining case. He said, ‘You probably would have given him Padma Vibhushan for his 30 years of work.’