The Supreme Court will pass orders on Friday on the contempt petitions against comedian Kunal Kamra for posting scandalous tweets against the top court. Attorney general K.K. Venugopal had already given consent for filing of the contempt pleas against Kamra.

Comedian Kunal Kamra ’s appreciation for fellow stand-up comedian Zakir Khan is getting a lot of praise on social media. Kamra tweeted about how when he was travelling recently a fellow passenger at an airport asked what he did for for a living, and he replied that he was a stand-up comedian. New Delhi: Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra defended in the Supreme Court on Friday his alleged scandalous tweets against the judiciary saying if the court believes he has crossed the line and wants to shut down his internet indefinitely, then he too will write Happy Independence Day post cards every 15th August, just like my Kashmiri friends. Kunal Kamra (born 3 October 1988) is an Indian standup comedian known for his observational comedy about absurdities of life. His performances include jokes about politics, cabbies, bachelor life and TV advertisements. In 2020, he was banned from flying for three months by five Indian air carriers after an incident on an IndiGo flight, where he 'allegedly heckled' the Indian news anchor Arnab.

A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan and comprising Justices R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah asked advocate Nishant Katneshwarkar not to read all the tweets before the bench, as it has already gone through the contents of the plea. After a brief hearing in the matter, the bench said it will pass orders on Friday.

The plea has been filed by law students Shrirang Katneshwarkar, Nitika Duhan, and advocates Amey Abhay Sirsikar, Abhishek Sharan Raskar, and Sattyendra Vinayak Muley. 'The alleged contemnor (Kamra) has the following of 1.7 million people. The scandalous tweets of the alleged contemnor were seen by his followers and many of them retweeted the same', said the plea. Citing Section 2 (c) (i) of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, the petitioners argued that this section is explicit and the tweets published by Kamra clearly show he allegedly committed gross contempt of the apex court.

The plea emphasized that every follower of Kamra on Twitter must have read the tweets and more than 1,000 people have retweeted the scandalous tweets. The petitioners insisted that Kamra was fully aware of his action. Docker on windows 10 home. 'When some persons tried to make the alleged contemnor aware about the contempt of this court, the alleged contemnor was rude, arrogant and unapologetic. The conduct of the alleged contemnor shows that he has no regard for this court', said the plea.

Maverick 10.9 download apple. The plea contended that the AG by reproducing the tweets observed that the tweets are not only in bad taste but clearly cross the line between humour and contempt of the court.

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The petitioners said though the Supreme Court has let off contemnors in the past upon tendering apology, but this case is different. 'The conduct of the alleged contemnor is so harsh that the alleged contemnor does not deserve any sympathy at the hands of this court even in case of tendering apology. Citizens of this country strongly believe that the people like the alleged contemnor should not be spared at any cost', said the plea seeking action against Kamra.

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The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned for four weeks the hearing on the three criminal contempt petitions against comedian Kunal Kamra for his tweets about the judiciary, reported Live Law. The adjournment was based on the request of one of the petitioners seeking time to file a rejoinder to the counter-affidavit that Kamra’s counsel had submitted.

A Supreme Court bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy took up the pleas of Abhyudaya Mishra, Shrirang Kantneshwarkar and Skand Bajpai that were filed after getting Attorney General KK Venugopal’s consent, according to PTI. The court also tagged another plea, filed by a person identified as Anuj Singh, for a tweet about Chief Justice of India SA Bobde.

On January 29, the Supreme Court had adjourned the proceedings in Mishra’s plea for two weeks after the comedian filed the affidavit. The comedian, in his affidavit, had said that his tweets were not posted with the intent of insulting the court, but to highlight matters that he believed were relevant to the Indian democracy. He also said that faith in the judiciary cannot be shaken by any criticism or commentary, but only by the courts’ own actions and accord.

“The suggestion that my tweets could shake the foundations of the most powerful court in the world is an over-estimation of my abilities,” Kamra had said in response to one of the contempt notice. “Just as the Supreme Court values the faith public places in it (and seeks to protect it by the exercise of its criminal contempt jurisdiction), it should also trust the public not to form its opinions of the Court on the basis of a few jokes on Twitter.”

In November, Venugopal had given his consent to begin contempt proceedings against Kamra for his tweets criticising the Supreme Court. One of these tweets was the picture of the Supreme Court building swathed in saffron colour. He was criticising the Supreme Court for the manner in which it had fast-tracked Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami’s bail plea in an abetment to suicide case, even as thousands of undertrials languishing in jails across the country find it difficult to get a hearing.

In another case, a sessions court in Varanasi on Thursday admitted a revision petition filed against a magistrate order that dismissed a criminal complaint seeking registration of a first information report against the comedian. The comedian was accused of insulting the Indian flag by tweeting a morphed picture of the Supreme Court building with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party flag flying atop it.

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