Prashant Bhushan

Speaking in an interview, Prashant Bhushan accused that India Against Corruption (IAC) movement was "propped up by the RSS and BJP". He said that the movement was used against the ruling UPA government, to bring it down and neither Anna Hazare nor he(Bhushan) knew about it. However, he added that Arvind Kejriwal was aware of it. … read-more

Advocate Prashant Bhushan on August 24 has refused to apologise for his contemptuous tweets against CJI and the Supreme Court. The advocate said that it was his duty to offer constructive criticism when he believed that the court deviated from its role. Earlier, he was held guilty of contempt, and was offered an opportunity to avoid the punishment- a fine, 6-month jail or both- by apologising before the… read-more

On August 17, Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by Justice Mishra mentioned that there are three major issues that needs to be examined in the contempt case of advocate Prashant Bhushan in 2009. The order was passed during the hearing of Bhushan, who in an interview with Tehelka magazine, had talked about judicial corruption. The lawyer appearing for Bhushan agreed that the questions raised are 'meaningful'. 

Supreme Court permitted Prashant Bhushan, Arun Shourie, and N Ram to withdraw their plea challenging constitutionality of the offence of 'scandalizing the court' under Section 2(c)(i) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, on August 13. Senior advocate Rajeev Dhawan informed the bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, that petitioners wanted to withdraw the plea and did not want "this to be entangled" with other similar petitions in the court.