One of India's most prominent lawyers faces a Monday deadline to apologise to the Supreme Court or risk jail in a case testing the judiciary's ...
FILE PHOTO: Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer representing the petitioner, speaks with the media after India's Supreme Court dismissed petitions calling for an investigation into the death of Judge B.
He told the court in a statement on Thursday that he would"cheerfully submit to any penalty" over the two June tweets, which he said"represented my bonafide beliefs, the expression of which must be permissible in any democracy". Some lawyers and media editorials support Bhushan, saying the court is being too harsh, arguing that his tweets amounted to legally protected criticism.
In his first tweet, Bhushan posted a viral photo of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde astride a Harley-Davidson. He wrote Bobde was sitting on a 5 million rupee bike without a mask or a helmet when citizens were being denied justice as the court was in lockdown.
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