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Oct 7, 2020 · The Supreme Court, upon the complaint filed by the Mahek Maheshwari, took Suo motu cognizance of the tweets posted by activist and advocate Prashant Bhushan on his twitter handle and held him guilty of contempt of court for lowering the authority of the court, through his tweets.
Mar 23, 2021 · On 14th August 2020, the Supreme Court of India sentenced Advocate, Mr. Prashant Bhushan for criminal contempt for two of his tweets. The contempt case of Prashant Bhushan was in the limelight due to the observations of the Supreme Court.
Aug 14, 2020 · A petition came to be filed in this Court by one Mahek Maheshwari bringing to the notice of this Court, a tweet made by Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Advocate, alleged contemnor No.1 praying therein to initiate contempt proceedings against the alleged contemnors for wilfully and deliberately using hate/scandalous speech against this Court and entire ...
contempt vide judgment dated 14.08.2020, Dr. Rajeev Dhavan and Shri. Dushyant Dave, learned senior counsel appearing for the contemnor Shri. Prashant Bhushan raised the following arguments: (i) That the copy of the petition on the basis of which the suo motu.
Aug 14, 2020 · On Friday, a three-judge Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra found two tweets by lawyer Prashant Bhushan amounting to “serious contempt of court”.
Aug 31, 2020 · A prominent Indian lawyer and civil rights activist has been asked to pay a symbolic fine of one rupee after being found guilty of contempt of court. The Supreme Court took action against...
Aug 25, 2020 · The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing of a 2009 contempt case against lawyer Prashant Bhushan because 'larger' questions are involved. What are these questions that need to be examined by a new Bench?
Aug 14, 2020 · A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday found civil rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt by ‘scandalising the court’. It said his tweet on a photograph of Chief...
Aug 14, 2020 · The Supreme Court on Friday held advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt in a case registered against him over two of his tweets. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said the court will hear the arguments on the quantum of punishment on August 20.
Oct 19, 2021 · The Supreme Court initiated suo moto criminal contempt proceedings against Advocate Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India, on the basis of two tweets posted by Bhushan on the social media platform.
