Court was hearing a 2011 civil suit filed by Anita Kumari Gupta, a Sydney resident, when the incident occurred earlier this month. Gupta asked to make physical appearance in court.
Kamra, in reply to contempt notice by SC over his tweets, says there’s no defence for jokes, adding through his work he attempts to ‘comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable’.
Vijay Athawale, deputy secretary of Maharashtra Assembly, was responding to a contempt notice issued by SC for threatening to penalise Goswami for approaching the top court.
The judges, who had signed a solidarity statement issued by 131 jurists & activists, called on Supreme Court to 'maintain the dignity' of the court and be open to public discussion.
Case dates back to 2009 when Bhushan had given an interview to Tehelka magazine in which where he allegedly made a serious imputation against then CJI S.H. Kapadia.
A special bench of the Supreme Court will be hearing petitions seeking a review of the court's Rafale verdict and the contempt case against Rahul Gandhi.
The US House has effectively drawn a line in the sand and approved the release of the Epstein files despite President Trump's efforts to stop it from happening.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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