ATTORNEY GENERAL GRANTS CONSENT IN CONTEMPT PROCEEDING

ATTORNEY GENERAL GRANTS CONSENT IN CONTEMPT PROCEEDING

2^ND DECEMBER, 2020

Attorney General KK Venugopal has granted his consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against comic artist Rachita Taneja for a cartoon uploaded on her Twitter handle that depicted the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hon’ble Supreme Court and a  news reporter.

The Attorney General has also noted another tweet that read, “Arnab gets bail, real journalists get jail, an independent judiciary is failing”, along with a picture of the Supreme Court with the engraving “Sanghi Court of India”. The tweet by Taneja had come after the Supreme Court had granted interim bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.

Attorney General Venugopal stated that the tweet by Taneja implies that the Supreme Court is biased towards the ruling party, and he is satisfied that each of the tweets with cartoons attached is in contempt of the Supreme Court of India, and the same is enough to initiate contempt proceeding