Movie director Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday tendered an unconditional apology earlier than the Delhi Excessive Court docket for his feedback alleging bias towards Justice S Muralidhar when he granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha. The 49-year-old director’s apology comes after the courtroom had determined to proceed ex-parte towards Agnihotri and others.
Justice Muralidhar had served as a choose of the Delhi Excessive Court docket from 2006 until March 2020. Later, he served the Excessive Court docket of Punjab and Haryana until January 2021. He’s at the moment the Chief Justice of the Orissa Excessive Court docket.
In his affidavit – filed earlier than the courtroom – Agnihotri said that he had the deleted the tweet, which was the purpose of the competition. The courtroom, in the meantime, has requested him to come back in individual and tender an apology. “We’re asking him (Agnihotri) to stay current as a result of he’s the contemnor. Does he have any issue if he has to precise regret in individual? The regret can not all the time be expressed by means of an affidavit,” the bench remarked.
Additional, amicus curiae and senior counsel Arvind Nigam has additionally identified that Agnihotri’s tweet was deleted by the social media platform, and never him.
Gautam Navlakha (70) is an accused beneath the Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA) for his alleged function within the Bhima Koregaon violence. The Supreme Court docket not too long ago rejected the NIA’s request on its problem to his request for home arrest.
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