Supreme Court order issuing Contempt Notice to Justice Katju is out, Read Text here

November,12,2016:

What Justice Katju stated in his Blog seem to be an attack on the SC Judges and not on the Judgment, reads the Order.

Yesterday Justice Katju had gone to SC on an invite from the Bench to justify his blog that there are “fundamental flaws” in the Judgment given by J. Gogoi’s Bench.

As the hearing came to an end, sequence of events which unfolded then were arguably one of the most unfortunate and ugly spat witnessed in Supreme Court.

Justice Gogoi questioned J. Katju on certain contents of his Blog. J. Katju accepted that he had written the Blog and that he has every right to speak his mind.

J. Katju had said in the Blog that Justice Gogoi would become Chief Justice of India on the basis of seniority but he does not have even an elementary knowledge of Law.

Mukul Rohatgi representing the State said that some portions of it are 'scandalous'.

Then J. Gogoi told J. Katju that a Contempt Notice is being issued to him. J. Katju lost his cool and said,'Don’t give me threats, Mr. Gogoi. Don’t try to be funny with me. You have been my Junior.''

This led to Justice Gogoi loosing his cool, he said,”You are provoking us… Is there nobody here who will escort Justice Katju out of this courtroom?” Soon security Guards zeroed in on the retired judge to take him out of Court.

Read the Full Text of the Order here-

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