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Television anchor Rajdeep Sardesai. (File) The Supreme Court Tuesday night clarified that no contempt proceedings have been initiated against journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for his August 2020 tweets, terming an error on its website as ‘inadvertent’. In its clarification statement, the SC said, “No such proceeding has been initiated against Mr Rajdeep Sardesai. Status shown at Supreme Court website…has been placed inadvertently and appropriate action to rectify the same is under process.”
The clarification comes hours after the apex court had registered a suo motu contempt case against Sardesai for his tweets allegedly criticising the judiciary.
Supreme Court clarifies: “no such proceeding has been initiated against Mr Rajdeep Sardesai”. Adds “status shown at Supreme Court website…has been placed inadvertently” & “appropriate action to rectify the same is under process”. @IndianExpress https://t.co/Zdzj3XE57w
— Ananthakrishnan G (@axidentaljourno) February 16, 2021
The case was registered by the Supreme Court based on a petition by one Aastha Khurana, the Bar and Bench reported.
The developments come five months after Attorney General KK Venugopal refused to initiate criminal proceedings against the TV anchor on basis of the same complaint.
In his complaint, the petitioner has referred to two tweets made by Rajdeep in July and August 2020.
While one of the tweets was in connection with the contempt case on lawyer Prashant Bhushan in which he was fined Re 1, the other tweet was about former Supreme Court Justice Arun Mishra, Bar and Bench reported.