New Delhi: Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, who is currently facing contempt charges over his tweets criticizing the Supreme Court has said that he would neither retract his posts nor apologise for them.
Kamra’s tweets came close on the heels of the top court granting interim bail to TV anchor Arnab Goswami after his arrest in an abetment to suicide case.
“I don’t intend to retract my tweets or apologise for them. I believe they speak for themselves,” Kamra tweeted adding: “No lawyers, no apology, no fine, no waste of space”.
He said that his view hasn’t changed because the silence of the Supreme Court of India on matters of other’s personal liberty cannot go uncriticized.
“I wish to volunteer having the time that would be alloted to the hearing of my contempt petition (20 hrs at the very least, if Prashant Bhushan’s hearing is anything to go by) to other matters and parties who have not been as lucky and privileged as I am to jump the queue,” he said.
His recent tweets irked many and soon, Attorney General KK Venugopal, while allowing eight people to file criminal contempt cases against Kamra, said that he had crossed a line.
“It is time that people understand attacking the Supreme Court unjustifiably and brazenly will lead to punishment,” Venugopal said in a letter replying to a lawyer who had asked his sanction to take Mr Kamra to court.
In January this year, Mr Kamra was banned by several airlines after he heckled Arnab Goswami on an IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow.
