Throughout the course of the listening to, a bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Amit Sharma famous that none among the many three appeared earlier than the court docket regardless of issuing notices. Accordingly, the court docket proceeded with the listening to and listed it for additional listening to on March 16.
The case is in reference to their remarks in opposition to excessive court docket Justice S. Muralidhar who had quashed rights activist Gautam Navlakha’s home arrest order and transit remand within the Bhima Koregaon case in 2018. Within the earlier listening to on Could 4, additionally the court docket had famous the absence of the trio within the final couple of hearings whereas serving notices to them.
As per the case, the suo moto contempt proceedings have been initiated in opposition to the respondents following RSS ideologue S. Gurumurthy’s tweets alleging bias by Justice Muralidhar. In his tweet, he retweeted the hyperlink from a weblog known as ‘Drishtikone’ which had an article titled ‘Why has Delhi Excessive Court docket Justice Muralidhar’s relationship with Gautam Navlakha not been disclosed?’
The court docket took discover of the tweet and the article after Advocate Rajshekhar Rao wrote a letter to then Chief Justice Rajendra Menon, alleging that the article and Gurumurthy’s retweet was a deliberate try and assault a sitting Excessive Court docket choose. Gurumurthy was later dropped from the case after an apology however others together with Agnihotri and Ranganathan are nonetheless the respondents.
Earlier additionally, a contempt discover was despatched to Vivek Agnihotri over his tweets that acknowledged that Gautam Navlakha was proven leniency over the truth that he was a buddy of the choose’s spouse.
