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The Supreme Court of India has issued notice to comedian Kunal Kamra in a criminal contempt case against the tweets he made on the judiciary.
The court has granted 6 weeks to return the notice.
The Apex Court also noted that the Attorney General of India KK Venugopal had granted his consent to initiate criminal contempt against Kamra over his tweets.
The bench consisted of Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice R Subhash Reddy, and Justice MR Shah.
The three-judge bench had considered the petition filed by Abhyuday Mishra, Skand Bajpai, and Srirang Katneshwar.
On 17th December, the Apex Court reserved orders on whether to notify Kunal Kamra, a comedian, about the petitions filed seeking criminal contempt action against him for his tweets.
Advocate Nishant Katneshwarkar, representing one of the petitions, stated that the tweet is criminal contempt as it read ‘who am I to scandalize the already scandalized’ concerning the top-most court in India.
Further, Kunal Kamra had posted an image of the ruling party and had changed the color of the flag hoisted above the Supreme Court to saffron and tweeted that “Supreme Court of the country is the Supreme Joke of the country.”
Other petitions on the same were disregarded on the basis that the court has already heard a petition regarding the posts made by Kunal Kamra on Twitter.