SC pulls up Prashant Bhushan & Twitter for alleged derogatory tweets against judiciary

Supreme Court on Tuesday initiated a suo motu contempt of court proceedings against table advocate Prashant Bhushan over his recent tweets which were allegedly derogatory in nature against judiciary. apex court will take up matter for hearing on Wednesday. SC has also held Twitter Indian liable in matter and has initiate contempt proceedings against microblogging website as well. A three-judge bench comprising of Justices BR Gavai and Krishna Murari and headed by Justice Arun Mishra will hear suo motu contempt matter. 

It is reported that SC has taken cognisance of three tweets in which Bhushan has made baseless allegations criticising higher authorities of apex court. Senior advocate Dushyant Dave is set to represent Prashant Bhushan for hearing on Wednesday. 

It should be ted that this is t first time that Prashant Bhushan has been pulled up by Supreme Court. A PIL was filed against advocate earlier for tweeting against SC and senior members of judiciary. However, Bhushan was let go n by SC with an apology from his side.