[Breaking] "Offering An Apology Would Be Contempt Of My Conscience And That Of Supreme Court": Prashant Bhushan Refuses To Apologize In Contempt Case [Read Affidavit]
4 years, 4 months ago

[Breaking] "Offering An Apology Would Be Contempt Of My Conscience And That Of Supreme Court": Prashant Bhushan Refuses To Apologize In Contempt Case [Read Affidavit]

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Advocate Prashant Bhushan has filed a supplementary affidavit before the Supreme Court, refusing to tender an apology with respect to the statements made by him over Twitter, in connection to functioning of the Supreme Court as well as the CJI. Bhushan said that the remarks made by him were a "constructive criticism" of the Court and therefore, retracting the same would amount to tendering and "insincere apology". "Therefore I expressed myself in good faith, not to malign the Supreme Court or any particular Chief Justice, but to offer constructive criticism so that the court can arrest any drift away from its long-standing role as a guardian of the Constitution and custodian of peoples' rights," he said. If I retract a statement before this court that I otherwise believe to be true or offer an insincere apology, that in my eyes would amount to the contempt of my conscience and of an institution that I hold in highest esteem," the affidavit filed through Advocate Kamini Jaiswal read. Speaking at a Facebook Live session organized by the Students Federation of India on the topic "Decoding Democracy" on Saturday, Bhushan stressed on the need to speak truth to power and said that one should be prepared even to go to jail for that.

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