No lawyers, No apology, No fine: Kunal Kamra refuses to retract, apologise for tweets against SC
Kunal Kamra said in a statement posted on Twitter, addressed to the judges and the attorney general, 'My view hasn't changed because the silence of the Supreme Court of India on matters of other's personal liberty cannot go uncriticised. I don't intend to retract my tweets or apologise for them. I believe they speak for themselves.'
A day after Attorney General KK Venuguopal gave his consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against stand-up comic Kunal Kamra, the Comedian on Friday said that he doesn't intend to retract his tweets or apologise for them.
He tweeted, 'My view hasn't changed because the silence of the Supreme Court of India on matters of other's personal liberty cannot go uncriticised. I don't intend to retract my tweets or apologise for them. I believe they speak for themselves.'
In a statement posted on Twitter, addressed to the judges and the attorney general, Kamra further wrote, 'The tweets I recently put out have been found in contempt of court. All that I tweeted was from my view of the Supreme Court of India giving a partial decision in favour of a Prime Time Loudspeaker.' He added, 'No lawyers, no apology, no fine, no waste of space'.
Kamra had posted his views on Twitter after the Supreme Court granted interim bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in a 2018 abetment to suicide case.
Kamra further stated, 'The Supreme Court of India hasn't yet declared my tweets anything as of now but if and when they do, I hope they can have a small laugh before declaring them Contempt of Court.'
Attorney General KK Venugopal, allowing eight people to file criminal contempt cases against Kunal Kamra, said in a letter that he had crossed the line.
Venugopal, in his letter on Thursday referred to Kamra's tweets as 'highly objectionable' and 'in bad taste'.
'It is time that people understand attacking the Supreme Court unjustifiably and brazenly will lead to punishment,' Mr Venugopal said replying to a lawyer who had asked his sanction to take Mr Kamra to court.
Law Student Shirang Katneshwarkar and two lawyers had written to the Attorney General about the comedian's tweet storm.
Kamra has been outraging on Twitter over the Supreme Court granting interim bail to Arnab Goswami a week after his arrest over the suicide of an architect, Anvay Naik, and his mother in 2018.