{"id":15100,"date":"2021-01-29T23:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/suo-motu-contempt-petition-in-re-prashant-bhushan-and-another-air-2020-sc-4074\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T23:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:05:45","slug":"suo-motu-contempt-petition-in-re-prashant-bhushan-and-another-air-2020-sc-4074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/suo-motu-contempt-petition-in-re-prashant-bhushan-and-another-air-2020-sc-4074\/","title":{"rendered":"Suo Motu Contempt Petition In .Re . Prashant Bhushan and Another AIR 2020 SC 4074"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court held that\u00a0 when an Advocate will fully and deliberately using haste \/scandalous\u00a0 speech against Supreme Court and entire Judicial system based on distorted facts amounts to committing of criminal contempt of Supreme Court hence not entitle to protection under Art 19 (1) of the Constitution .\u00a0 Court also observed that , if\u00a0 statement made by Citizen tends to undermine dignity and authority of Supreme Court , it would come in ambit of criminal contempt and when Supreme Court is exercising its inherent powers to issue of notice , it is not necessary to take consent of anybody ,including Attorney General .\u00a0 ( CP ( Cri) No 1.of 2020 dt 14 -8 -2020 )\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contempt of Courts Act , ( 70 of 1971 )<br \/>\nS. 12 : Punishment for contempt of Court &#8211; Advocate \u2013 Deliberately using haste \/ scandalous speech against Supreme Court and  entire judicial system \u2013 Guilty of criminal contempt  of  Supreme  Court [ Constitution of India , Art. 19 (1) , 129 ] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allied-laws"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-3Vy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15101,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions\/15101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}