A plea has been filed before Attorney General of India KK Venugopal seeking sanction for initiating criminal contempt proceedings against actor Swara Bhaskar for her “scandalous” statements against the Supreme Court on its verdict in Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute case.
The petitioner alleged that the actor’s statements were not only a “cheap stunt of publicity”, but also a deliberate attempt to turn the masses to revolt against the Supreme Court.
“The alleged contemnor statements intends to incite feeling of no-confidence amongst the public with respect to the proceedings of the Hon’ble Court and integrity of the Hon’ble Judges of the Apex Court of India,” petitioners – Anuj Saxena, Prakash Sharma and Mahek Maheshwari, said on behalf of the petitioner.
Maheshwari is the same advocate who made Prashant Bhushan eat dust for her tweets against the judiciary, especially CJI SA Bobde.
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The plea has been filed to procure consent under section 15 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971 read with rule 3 of Contempt proceedings of the Supreme Court 1975, for initiating Criminal contempt proceedings against the actor.
The petition alleged scandlisation of the court by saying courts are not sure if they believe in the constitution, while addressing a conference “artists against communalism” at Mumbai in February 2020.
“We are now in a situation where our courts are not sure whether they believe in the Constitution or not … What then do we do and it seems to me that as everyone has said that the path is clear to us and it has been shown to us by you all whoever of you all have been part of the protest by students by the women and by the citizen protestors it is to resist…
We are living in a country where the Supreme Court of our country states in a judgment that the demolition of the Babri Masjid was unlawful and in the same judgment rewards the same people who brought down the mosque,” Swara had said.
