NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear next week a plea seeking directions for taking down comments of BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey and Dinesh Sharma, attacking the apex court and the Chief Justice of India (CJI), from social media platforms.
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The petition reached the court a day after it had asked an advocate to seek the attorney general’s consent for filing a contempt petition against Dubey and Sharma for their caustic allegations.
Mentioning the petition for urgent hearing, the petitioner, also an advocate, told a bench of Justices B R Gavai and A G Masih that while the statements of the BJP MPs were condemnable and unwarranted, the same were being widely circulated on social media, causing irreparable harm to the prestige and dignity of SC and institution of CJI as head of judiciary.
The counsel said while the statements of the MPs were making rounds on social media, so are more caustic reactions to these remarks. “Though the party has distanced itself from statements of the MPs, govt is doing nothing to direct the social media platforms to take down all posts linked to the offensive statements,” he said.