Supreme Court Senior Lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of ‘Criminal Contempt of court’

Prashant Bhushan popular civil rights lawyer  tweets based on distorted facts but it was a fair and reasonable  criticism which is the fundamental rights  about two issues :

1. Chief Justice of India riding a 50lakh motorcycle at the Raj Bhavan, without wearing a mask or helmet at a time when he keeps the SC in lockdown mode denying the citizen’s fundamental rights to access justice!

2. For 6 years the CJI who have come up with their democracy is distorted. 

Supreme courts take action on this tweet as it is a trust-breaking tweet towards the trust of the fellow citizens and also charges about the CJI of India and regarded it as a measure “contempt of court “. As per contempt of court act 1971 refers to an offense of showing disrespect to the dignity of the court authority of a court. The act divides into 2 parameters :

Civil contempt: to disobey the decree, direction, order, writer other processes of a court, or wilful breach of an undertaking even court. 

Criminal contempt: it is any publication which may result in : 

• scandalizing the court by lowering its authority 

• Inference in the due course of a judicial procedure

•   An obstruction in the administrative justice 

Punishment: 6 months in prison or a fine of Rs. 2000