New Delhi: The court on Friday held activist advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt of court for his two derogatory tweets to the judiciary. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Justice BR Gavai and Justice Krishna Murari held Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt and said that a debate on the quantum of its sentence would be heard on 20 August.
The apex court on August 5, while completing the hearing in the case, had said that a decision on it would be pronounced later. Earlier, advocate Prashant Bhushan defended the two tweets which allegedly defamed the court. He said that those tweets were about his personal level of conduct against the judges and they do not obstruct the administration of justice. Taking cognizance of a petition in the case, the court had on July 22 issued a show-cause notice to Prashant Bhushan for criminal contempt proceedings.
