Supreme Court News

       [Contempt case against a lawyer]  Like Prashant Bhushan’s case, the Calcutta High Court  asked lawyer to just tender the apology and the proceedings will be dropped. Division bench headed by  Chief Justice T. B. Radhakrishnan, with Justice Sanjib Banerjee  granted one weeks time to Adv. Bijoy Adhikri  to file affidavit.  Case fixed for 29 th September. The Lawyer in his preliminary submission  insisted to drop the proceeding or issue summons to Justice Dipankar Dutta (Chief Justice of Bombay High Court) as a witness. Counsels for Respondent Lawyer said that they will do their best to protect the respect and Independence of the Bar without affecting the respect for the Court as both are important and both cannot be compromised.   Advocate General Mr. Kishor Dutta appeared as an  Amicus to assist the Court.   When matter came up for hearing, on 21.09.2020 the Counsel Mr.  Soumya Roy, Ms. Sukanya Bhattacharyya , Md. Kutubuddin, Mr. Asim Ghoshal and many members of the Bar appeared

  [ Rhea Chakraborty's  bail  ]   Bail application of   Rhea Chakraborty  and 5 others is rejected by the Mumbai Sessions Court.       There are speculations that the C.B.I. is keeping watch on the middlemen of corrupt and tainted Judges and it is very difficult for Rhea to get any favorable order by managing corrupt middleman of tainted Judges like Retired Justice Deepak Gupta of the Supreme Court.   Earlier C.B.I. arrested Judges for accepting bribe of Rs. 10 Crores for granting bail to undeserving accused.                                           [ Justice (Retd.) Deepak Gupta's corrupt practices to save the accused from serious charges, involvement in anti national activities  is under investigation and the complainant got the deemed sanction to prosecute him. ] Friday 11 th  Sep 2020: The Mumbai Sessions Court on Friday rejected the bail applications of all 6 accused - Rhea Chakraborty Showik Chakraborty, Abdul Basit, Zaid Vilatra, Dipesh Sawant and Samuel Miranda.  Shush

  [Action against Rhea Ckakraborty's lawyer] Adv. Satish Maneshinde committed contempt and Professional Misconduct by publising tweet. [Action against Rhea Ckakraborty's lawyer] Adv. Satish Maneshinde committed contempt and Professional Misconduct by publising tweet. His comments given to media are violation of  Clause 36 under Section IV (‘Duty to Colleagues’) of the ‘Standards of Professional Conduct and Etiquette to be Observed by Advocates’ laid down by the Bar Council of India, by publishing tweet when her custody and bail applications are being heard by the Court and being argued by Mr. Maneshinde. Recently Bench of Supreme Court  headed by Justice Arun Mishra in his sentencing judgment against Adv. Prashant Bhushan criticized such conduct pointing that the statutory rules prohibit advocates to cater to the press/media, distorted versions of the court proceedings as it is is sheer misconduct and contempt of court. Bar Council of India took suo motu cognizance of alleged m