ANI | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Thursday directed movie director Vivek Agnihotri to seem in individual on April 10 in a matter associated to a tweet that he posted in 2018 about Justice S Muralidhar who had quashed the transit remand of activist Gautam Navlakha.
The division bench comprising justices Sidharth Mridul and Talwant Singh directed Agnihotri to seem in individual on April 10.
The bench additionally took be aware of the order of December 6 when Agnihotri was directed to seem earlier than the courtroom.
On the final listening to on December 6, Agnihotri tendered his unconditional apology for the tweets he posted in 2018.
The bench had requested Agnihotri to stay current within the subsequent listening to.
This contempt case was initiated by the courtroom sou moto in opposition to Agnihotri and Reserve Financial institution of India Governor S Gurumurthy.
The counsel for Agnihotri submitted that Agnihotri is down with a fever and thus was not in a position to seem earlier than the courtroom.
Thereafter, the bench requested him to seem bodily on the following date.
Agnihotri’s counsel had submitted via an affidavit that the tweets had been deleted by his consumer.
Then again, amicus curiae opposed the submission saying that the tweets had been deleted by the social platform Twitter, not by him.
The bench had stated, “We’re asking him to stay current as a result of he’s contemnor. Does he have any problem if he has to precise regret in individual? The regret can not all the time be specific by means of an affidavit.” (ANI)