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The Supreme Court of India has issued notice to illustrator Rachita Taneja in a criminal contempt case against the illustrations she 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 Taneja over her 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 Aditya Kashyap.
Attorney General KK Venugopal had given his nod to begin the contempt proceedings against artist Rachita Taneja for her tweets over the Supreme Court ruling in Arnab Goswami’s abetment to suicide case earlier.
The Attorney General wrote in his letter that Rachita Taneja’s Twitter handle @sanitarypanels had posted a line of illustrations against the apex court and observed it as “audacious assault and insult to the institution.”
The illustration depicted by the cartoonist Rachita Taneja portrayed Arnab with the ruling party BJP and the Supreme Court by his side.
It showed Arnab saying “Tu janta nahi mera baap kaun hai” suggesting that the Supreme Court was partial towards the ruling party.
The tweet contained “Arnab gets bail, real journalists get jail, independent judiciary is fail.”