Prashant Bhushan Guilty Of Contempt For Tweets Against Supreme Court, CJI SA Bobde, Says Apex Court

New Delhi: Lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who had tweeted against the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde was held guilty for contempt by the apex court on Thursday.

Bhushan had posted two tweets, one on the Supreme Court on June 27 and the second one on CJI Bobde on June 29. He was served notice by the apex court on July 22, Hindustan Times (HT) reported.

On August 5 SC had reserved its verdict in the matter after Bhushan defended his two alleged contemptuous tweets saying they were against the judges regarding their conduct in their personal capacity and they did not obstruct administration of justice, HT reported.

The first tweet, reproduced in the court, said: “When historians in the future look back at the last six years to see how democracy has been destroyed in India even without a formal Emergency, they will particularly mark the role of the SC in this destruction, and more particularly the role of the last four CJIs.”

The second tweet said: “The CJI rides a Rs 50-lakh motorcycle belonging to a BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] leader at Raj Bhavan, Nagpur, without wearing a mask or helmet, at a time when he keeps the SC on lockdown mode denying citizens their fundamental right to access justice!”