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May 24 • 14 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Delhi HC to hear today a suo motu criminal contempt petition against scientist Anand Ranganathan.

Ranganathan is appearing in person before the court.

#DelhiHighCourt #ContemptofCourt @ARanganathan72 Image
The contempt petition was initiated against Ranganathan and others for their tweets on former Delhi HC judge and current Chief Justice of Orissa HC, Justice S Muralidhar for granting bail to activitst Gautam Navlakha.
Apart from Ranganathan, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri as well as RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy were made party to the case. However, all of them have been discharged after they tendered unconditional apology.
The contempt petition will be heard by a Division Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh.
Matter taken up.
Advocate J Sai Deepak appears for Ranganathan.
Counsel appearing for the other side seeks a passover.
Bench: Has he expressed his remorse?
Deepak: The tweet he put out was not respect to the facts... we will file an affidavit.
Order: Dr Anand Ranganathan, Resp No 14 has appeared before this court along with Mr J Sai Deepak. He prays for time to file an affidavit expressing his remorse...
Deepak: His point is not that.
J Mridul: He doesn't want to apologise?
Deepak: He has not repeated. He says I am free speech absolotutist. He has not even said...
J Mridul: So he makes a general statement? Oh! wonderful. So he is a conscientious objector to power of contempt?
Anand Ranganathan addresses the court.
This is my first appearance before the court... I did not comment on the judge. I simply stood with the person: Ranganathan.
J Talwant Singh: We have the comment here.
J Singh reads the tweet.

Bench discusses.
Order: He prays for and is granted four weeks time to file affidavit. We are not saying anything further about his appearance.
J Mridul: We are all for free speech but there are occassion when after having said something we regret saying it.
J Sai Deepak: He is not someone who speaks without facts.
J Mridul: We were informed that he said he would go down fighting.
Ranganathan: I never said that.
J Mridul: Alright, so long a we are clear on facts.
Case adjourned to October 11.

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