The Delhi High Court on Monday progressed ex-parte against filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, scientist Anand Ranganathan, and magazine and news gate Swarajya as nothing appeared for them in connection with a 2018 suo motu disdain case.
During the course of the hail, a bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Amit Sharma noted that none among the three appeared before the court despite issuing notices. Consequently, the court progressed with the hail and listed it for farther hail on March 16.
The case is in connection with their reflections against high court JusticeS.
Muralidhar who had quashed rights activist Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest order and conveyance remand in the Bhima Koregaon case in 2018. In the former hail on May 4, also the court had noted the absence of the triad in the last couple of sounds while serving notices to them.
As per the case, the suo motu disdain proceedings were initiated against the repliers following RSS ideologueS. Gurumurthy’s tweets professing bias by Justice Muralidhar. In his tweet, he retweeted the link from a blog called’ Drishtikone’ which had an composition named’ Why has Delhi High Court Justice Muralidhar’s relationship with Gautam Navlakha not been bared?’
The court took notice of the tweet and the composition after Advocate Rajshekhar Rao wrote a letter to also Chief Justice Rajendra Menon, professing that the composition and Gurumurthy’s retweet was a deliberate attempt to attack a sitting High Court judge. Gurumurthy was latterly dropped from the case after an reason but others including Agnihotri and Ranganathan are still the repliers.
before also, a disdain notice was transferred to Vivek Agnihotri over his tweets that stated that Gautam Navlakha was shown charity over the fact that he was a friend of the judge’s woman.
