Supreme Court Bar Association demands contempt action against BJP MP over remark about CJI
The Supreme Court Bar Association on Tuesday sought contempt action against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey for his comments about the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Bar and Bench reported.
The bar association said that Dubey’s remark was “not only defamatory but also amounts to contempt” of the Supreme Court.
“This attack on the Supreme Court, as an institution, and qua the Chief Justice of India Mr Justice Sanjiv Khanna, as an individual, is unacceptable and must be dealt with in accordance with the law,” the association said in a statement, urging the attorney general to take action against Dubey.
Under the 1971 Contempt of Courts Act, an individual can file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court only with approval from the attorney general or the solicitor general, Bar and Bench reported.
A lawyer has already approached the attorney general requesting consent to file the petition.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Dubey be listed for hearing next week, Bar and Bench reported.
The matter was mentioned before a bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih by a lawyer who said that the attorney general had not yet responded to the request for permission to initiate contempt action against Dubey.