The Supreme Court Bar Association condemned BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s statement, describing it as “actionable intemperate,” after he told ANI that Chief Justice of India, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, is responsible for “grih yuddhas” (civil wars) in the country, further alleging that “the Supreme Court is going beyond its limits” and suggesting that “if one has to go to the Supreme Court for everything, then Parliament and State Assemblies should shut down.”
In its resolution dated April 21, the Supreme Court Bar Association stated that Nishikant Dubey’s remarks were not only “defamatory” but also amounted to “contempt of the Supreme Court.”
The Association asserted that “this attack on the Supreme Court, as an institution, and qua the Chief Justice of India Mr. Justice Sanjiv Khanna, as an individual, is unacceptable and must be dealt with in accordance with the law.”
The signatories, including senior advocate and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Mr. Kapil Sibal, expressed hope that the Attorney General, entrusted with the responsibility of protecting the Constitution and the laws, who has reportedly received a petition seeking consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against Dubey, would grant such consent in order “to protect the dignity of the Institution and the dignity of the Chief Justice of India, Mr. Justice Sanjiv Khanna.”
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition next week seeking contempt of court action against Dubey.
On Monday, advocate Narendra Mishra had first approached the bench led by Justice B.R. Gavai, requesting permission to file a criminal defamation case against the Godda MP and urging the Court to take suo motu cognizance of Dubey’s controversial statements.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who is also a member of the Joint Committee of Parliament (JCP) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, has sparked widespread controversy with his remarks, not only for targeting the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, but also for his communal attack on former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi, whom he referred to as a “Muslim commissioner,” allegedly enabling Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Reacting to S.Y. Quraishi’s statement criticizing the Waqf (Amendment) Act, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, whom critics have called a “communal serial offender,” remarked, “You were not an election commissioner, you were a Muslim commissioner. The maximum number of Bangladeshi infiltrators were made voters in Santhal Pargana in Jharkhand during your tenure.”
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