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Justice Markenday Katju tenders unconditional apology: SC Drops Contempt Proceedings, accepts Apology


Justice Markenday Katju
07 Jan 2017
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January,7,2017:

Justice Katju deleted the blogs and facebook posts which led to the Contempt proceedings.

On Friday, Supreme Court has accepted Justice Markandey Katju’s apology for contemptuous remarks in his blog.

Apex Court has closed contempt proceedings against him pertaining to the certain blogs which he had written against the Bench in the sensational Soumya case after accepting his unconditional apology.

This was for the first time in the country’s judicial history, wherein Apex Court had issued suo motu contempt notice to its former judge on November 11.

Rajeev Dhavan, Senior Lawyer representing Justice Katju drew the attention of the Bench of Justice Gogoi and Justice U U Lalit to Katju’s apology affidavit which stated that "He has always and will continue to respect judiciary as an institution".

Justice Markenday Katju was a Supreme Court judge between year 2006 and 2011.

 



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