Contempt Plea Towards Comedian Artist Rachita Taneja Over Tweets On Superb Courtroom
Felony contempt of the Superb Courtroom is punishable with a superb as much as Rs 2,000.
New Delhi:
Having got the consent of Legal professional Normal Ok Ok Venugopal, a regulation scholar has approached the Superb Courtroom with a petition for starting up felony contempt complaints in opposition to comedian artist Rachita Taneja for her alleged objectionable tweets in opposition to the highest court docket.
The petition was once filed on Saturday after the petitioner won previous this week the written consent of the Legal professional Normal for initiation of complaints in opposition to her for 3 posts with photographs which might be allegedly outrageous, contemptuous, raise insinuations, and intentionally characteristic motives to judges of Superb Courtroom and their judgments.
The contempt petition has been filed by way of regulation scholar Aditya Kashyap via suggest Namit Saxena.
Rachita Taneja’s posts, the petition mentioned, have long past viral and feature been broadly shared and subscribed by way of folks attacking the establishment of the judiciary.
Rachita Taneja, being a social media influencer, has 1000’s of fans throughout more than a few platforms, it mentioned.
Namit Saxena, who’s advocate-on-record (AoR), mentioned that the Legal professional Normal in his written consent to begin felony contempt complaints had said that those posts are supposed to denigrate the Superb Courtroom and decrease its authority within the eyes of the general public, and thus the cartoons had been in contempt of the highest court docket.
The consent of both the Legal professional Normal or the Solicitor Normal is important, underneath phase 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, for starting up contempt complaints in opposition to an individual.
Felony contempt of the Superb Courtroom is punishable with a superb as much as Rs 2,000 and imprisonment as much as six months.
Lately, the Superb Courtroom had discovered lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan in charge of contempt of court docket for posting two tweets and fined him Re 1 for it.
Ok Ok Venugopal in his consent letter to Aditya Kashyap for starting up felony contempt complaints in opposition to Rachita Taneja, mentioned, “I’m happy that each and every probably the most tweets with the cartoons hooked up to them is in contempt of the Superb Courtroom of India, and therefore I give my consent to begin complaints underneath the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 in regard to each and every probably the most tweets.”
Within the petition, main points of the 3 posts and pictures which might be allegedly derogatory and contemptuous had been discussed.
The plea has sought a route that Rachita Taneja be restrained from publishing contemptuous posts on social media which scandalise and undermine the authority of the highest court docket.
The petitioner mentioned the plea spotlight 3 specifically outrageous and contemptuous posts that had been crafted, posted, and shared by way of Rachita Taneja via her social media handles (@sanitarypanels) on more than a few platforms with the malicious intent of scandalising and reducing the authority of the highest court docket and to prejudice and intervene with the due process judicial complaints.
Aditya Kashyap is pursuing LLB at Rajiv Gandhi Nationwide College of Regulation in Patiala, Punjab.
