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May 24 • 14 tweets • 7 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Author Anand Ranganathan to appear before the Delhi High Court in a contempt case related to remarks made against Justice S. Muralidhar on #Twitter in 2018.

Vivek Agnihotri has already been discharged as contemner after his “unconditional apology.”

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A division bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Talwant Singh will shortly hear a suo motu criminal contempt case initiated by the court in the matter.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt #Twitter
The tweets in question were made against Justice Muralidhar, former judge of the High Court and present Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, in respect of his order quashing the order of house arrest and transit remand of activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon case.
Hearing commences. Anand Ranganathan is present in the court. He is represented through Advocate J Sai Deepak.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Deepak: Dr. Anand Ranganathan is here before my lords as directed.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Deepak: We will file an affidavit. The only submission is that the tweet that he put out was not with respect to the specific issue. We will file an affidavit.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Court: Dr. Anand Ranganathan, respondent no 13, has appeared before this court along with Advocate J Sai Deepak and prays for time to file an affidavit....

Deepak: He never said anything on the issue...

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Deepak: He has never made a specific tweet on the issue.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Ranganathan: I am a free speech absolutist. Honoured to be here. I didn't comment on what the judge said.

Court: So long as whatever you said is not scandalous, you are free to say anything.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Justice Talwant Singh: We have the comment here.

Deepak: It is not on the issue.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Court: He prays for and is granted four weeks time to file an affidavit. We are not saying anything further about his appearance.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Justice Mridul: We are all for free speech. There are occasions when after we have said something, we regret saying that.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt
Justice Mridul: There are no facts in this case....We were informed that he said that...

Deepak: "I'll go down fighting."

Justice Mridul: Yes, yes.

Ranganathan: I never said that.

Justice Mridul: Oh okay. As long as we're clear on that...
Court: At the request of the amicus, adjourned to October 11.

#DelhiHighCourt #Contempt

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