13.11.2020, New Delhi :
Attorney General KK?Venugopal on
Thursday gave his nod to initiate contempt of court proceedings against
stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for his ‘highly objectionable’ tweets against the
Supreme Court.
The Attorney General has said that
the tweets by Kamra are ‘not only in bad taste but also clearly cross the line
between humour and contempt of the Court’.
Kamra on Wednesday had shared a
series of tweets concerning the top court in his reaction to interim bail
granted to Republic TV’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami by the SC in the 2018
abetment to suicide case. The tweets by Kamra termed to be constituting
criminal contempt of court by the AG include, “Honour has left the building (Supreme
Court) long back and “The Supreme Court of this Country is the most Supreme
joke of this country”.
In his letter, the AG has also
slammed Kamra’s tweet depicting the SC building in saffron colour and said that
the tweet amounts to gross insinuation against the entirety of the Supreme
Court, undermining its independence.
“This is a gross insinuation
against the entirety of the Supreme Court of India that the Supreme Court of
India is not an independent and impartial institution and so too its judges, but
on the other hand is a Court of the ruling party, the BJP, existing for the
BJP’s benefit,” the letter by AG?Venugopal read.
Censuring Kamra’s tweets, the
AG?said, “I find that today people believe that they can boldly and brazenly
condemn the Supreme Court of India and its judges by exercising what they
believe is their freedom of speech.”