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Pay Re 1 fine in contempt case, Supreme Court to Prashant Bhushan

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GUWAHATI , August 31, 2020 12:51 pm
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For criminal contempt of court for his tweets against the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde, the SC on Monday imposed a fine of Re 1 on activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan

The three-judge bench, which passed the judgement, said that if the lawyer fails to deposit the amount by September 15, then he will have to undergo simple imprisonment for three months.

Apart from it, Bhushan will also be barred from practising for three years.

The Supreme Court had on August 14 held Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt of court.

It stated that the allegations levelled in the tweets against the Court and CJI are malicious in nature, having the tendency to scandalise the court.

Bhushan’s tweets were based on distorted facts and have the effect of destabilising the foundation of the judiciary, the court had added.

Though the Supreme Court gave him time to “think over”, Prashant Bhushan maintained that he will not apologise.

In a statement on August 24, Prashant Bhushan said that the views expressed by him through his tweets represented his bona fide (good faith) beliefs and, therefore, an apology for expressing such beliefs would be insincere.

“An apology cannot be a mere incantation and an apology has to be sincerely made,” the lawyer had said.

“If I retract a statement before this court that I otherwise believe to be true or offer an insincere apology, that in my eyes would amount to the contempt of my conscience and of an institution (Supreme Court ) that I hold in the highest esteem,” added Prashant Bhushan.

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