As the Supreme Court granted time till August 24 to activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan to reconsider his “defiant statement” and tender “unconditional apology” for contemptuous tweets against the judiciary, a senior lawyer and former advocate general said that in criminal contempt matters, the permission of the attorney general is important in the SC. "You can't take cognizance of a tweet which is in law not admissible. In criminal contempt matters, the permission of the attorney general is important in the SC," said Anoop George Chaudhari, senior advocate & former Advocate General, M.P.