108 page response to two tweets 🙏🏽
Apurva Vishwanath
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Apurva Vishwanath
@apurva_hv
Journalist, law school survivor. Often found wandering around in courts.
New Delhi, India
Joined October 2009
- Breaking news: The highest constitutional court in India has had to lay down the law to clarify that an actress winking in cinema is not blasphemous & cannot hurt religious sentiments.
- Justice BV Nagarathna, the first woman Chief Justice of India takes oath.
- Harish Salve in Loya case, appearing for Maha govt: No reason to doubt statements of judicial officers about how a judge died. Also Harish Salve in Bhima Koregaon, appearing for Tushar Damgude: Why should retired HC/SC judges word be trusted about who held an event?
- Anyone recollects an instance where a judge of the higher judiciary was booed and cries of shame-shame were heard in a courtroom?
- AG: Anti-defection law would come into force only after the MLAs are sworn in. Justice Sikri and Bhushan: does that mean all the suitcase exchange is possible before they are sworn in? That's impermissible.
- 3 year jail term under IPC Section 153A for committing any act prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities, and which disturbs or is likely to disturb public tranquillity.
- Arun Shourie: If the present CJI Dipak Misra has to say repeatedly that he is the master of roster like "I am Tarzan, I am Tarzan" this already means that he has lost the moral authority.
- In case anyone is looking this up. Chandrachud will be CJI for two years from November 2022 to November 2024.
- Dushyant Dave in the Loya hearing: I say this in all seriousness and hope your lordships don't get upset- you haven't really asked the state any searching questions in a case as serious as this. Judges don't respond.
