Movie director Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday apologised to Delhi excessive court docket for criticising justice S Muralidhar for granting bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in Bhima Koregaon violence case.
The apology comes after the excessive court docket determined to proceed ex-parte in opposition to Agnihotri and others.
Justice Muralidhar was earlier a choose of the Delhi excessive court docket and is presently the chief justice of the Orissa excessive court docket.
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The case was initiated after Agnihotri and others criticised justice Muralidhar for his alleged bias in granting bail to Navlakha, throughout his time period on the Delhi HC.
On Tuesday, Agnihotri filed an affidavit earlier than a bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh providing unconditional apology for his remarks.
Nonetheless, the court docket requested him to come back in particular person for tendering the 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 specific regret in particular person? The regret can not all the time be expressed by means of an affidavit,” the bench remarked.
The court docket deferred the matter for March subsequent yr noting the submission of Agnihotri’s counsel that the movie director shall stay personally current for the following listening to on March 16, 2023 to tender his apology.
Agnihotri in his affidavit mentioned that he himself had deleted his tweets in opposition to the choose.
Nonetheless, amicus curiae and senior counsel Arvind Nigam identified that the stand could possibly be flawed contemplating Twitter’s affidavit on this respect, the place the micro-blogging web site has said it had deleted the tweets, quite than Agnihotri himself.
The court docket, nevertheless, didn’t delve deep into it after Agnihotri’s counsel advised that his consumer will stay personally current for subsequent listening to.
The matter might be heard on March 16, 2023.