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Attorney General Declines Consent To Initiate Contempt Proceedings Against Congress Leader Digvijaya Singh For His Two Tweets [Read Letter]

Sparsh Upadhyay

4 Oct 2020 11:17 AM IST

    • Attorney General Declines Consent To Initiate Contempt Proceedings Against Congress Leader Digvijaya Singh For His Two Tweets [Read Letter]

    The Attorney General KK Venugopal on Wednesday (30th September) declined to grant consent to initiate contempt proceedings against the Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh.He has rejected the request made by Advocate Sumant Sudan for AG's consent to initiate action for criminal Contempt against Digvijaya Singh.[Breaking] Attorney General For India KK Venugopal declines Consent to...

    The Attorney General KK Venugopal on Wednesday (30th September) declined to grant consent to initiate contempt proceedings against the Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh.

    He has rejected the request made by Advocate Sumant Sudan for AG's consent to initiate action for criminal Contempt against Digvijaya Singh.



    The Letter of Advocate Sumant Sudan (sent to AG) referred to the Two Tweets published by Digvijaya Singh on his Twitter page.

    "I have given careful consideration to the two tweets. The Statements made are wholly uncalled for. However, I do not believe that they merit action for criminal contempt of the Supreme Court of India", reads the response of the AG sent to Advocate Sumant Sudan. (Emphasis supplied)
    The AG sent the abovesaid response proceeding on the basis that tweets referred to "have actually been made by Digvijaya Singh."
    Lastly, the AG's Letter states that "I accordingly decline consent". (Emphasis supplied)

    It may be noted that Digvijaya Singh had tweeted the following on 15th September 2020:-


    [In Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Aditya Nath has formed SSF (Special Security Force) under which the police can raid someone's house and arrest anyone without any warrant, and without the permission of the Government, no one can even go to the court. 1/2]



    [Does the Indian Constitution allow such a law? Will the country's Judiciary consider such a law unconstitutional? Or will it decide in favor of the government under pressure? Let's see. 2/2]

    It may be noted that under Section 15 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971 read with Rule 3 of Contempt proceedings of the Supreme Court 1975, the Supreme Court can take Cognizance of criminal contempt on a motion made by Attorney General or the Solicitor-General for initiating Criminal contempt proceedings against any person.

    Needless to say that under Section 15 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971, in the case of a criminal contempt, the Supreme Court can take action on its own motion as well.

    Recently, Attorney General KK Venugopal had declined to grant consent to initiate contempt proceedings against actress Swara Bhaskar.

    He had rejected an application filed by Advocate Anuj Saxena seeking sanction under Section 15 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971 read with Rule 3 of Contempt proceedings of the Supreme Court 1975, for initiating Criminal contempt proceedings against actor Ms. Swara Bhaskar.
    [Read Letter]


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