Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 489 · Decided 31 August 2020
In Re: Prashant Bhushan and ANR. v. In Re:
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 489 · [2020] 8 S.C.R. 510
- Case number
- SUO MOTO CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1/2020
- Decided
- 31 August 2020
- Bench
- ARUN MISHRA, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Contempt
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(a), 129, 19(2)
Headnote
Contempt of Court - Criminal Contempt of Court - In suo motu proceedings, Contemnor (an advocate) held guilty by Supreme Court - Court granted time to Contemnor to make unconditional apology, if he so desired - Contemnor filed supplementary statement reiterating in twitter were bonafide and pleaded truth as valid defence - Held: The twin requirement for considering the truth as valid defence, as per s. 13 of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, is that such defence is in public interest and the request for invoking such defence is bona fide - In
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