Contempt plea against Kunal Kamra moved to SC

On November 11, the comedian had posted 4 tweets and a morphed picture of the Supreme Court in orange colour when the court was hearing Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami's bail plea.

New Delhi:After the Attorney General of India, KK Venugopal gave his nod to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against stand up comedian Kunal Kamra for his tweets against the Supreme Court, a bunch of law students have filed a plea in the court.

"The citizens of India have highest regard to the courts of law. No law abiding citizen of this country would tolerate such act of publication of tweets by the alleged contemnor," read the plea. Further, the petitioners contend that Kamra does not deserve any sympathy even if he apologises. The tweets were so bad in taste that even a common man would agree on the ground of Contempt, added the petitioners.

On November 11, the comedian had posted 4 tweets and a morphed picture of the Supreme Court in orange colour when the court was hearing Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami's bail plea.

Court had assembled amid their Diwali break and had observed that Goswami can not be denied personal liberty and had granted him bail.

Kamra had posted tweets against it calling the court "Supreme joke of this country". In his other 3 tweets he had said that Mahatma Gandhi's photo should be replaced by Harish Salve (Arnab Goswami's lawyer), "Justice DY Chandravhud is a flight attendant serving champagne to first class passengers after they're fast tracked through, while commoners don't know if they'll ever be boarded or seated, let alone served" and prefix of hon'ble should not be used for judges as the honour has left the buidling long back.

After this, around 8 letters were written to AG seeking his consent to initiate contempt proceedings against Kamra. AG had allowed it and said that even in his opinion the tweets were in contempt and the Supreme Court shall decide on them.

On the other hand, standing his ground Kamra tweeted that he is not apologetic about his posts and what he shared was his opinion.