Criminal Contempt Action Sought Against BJP MP Nishikant Dubey For Remarks Against Supreme Court & CJI

A letter has been sent to the Attorney General for India seeking sanction to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against BJP MP Nishikant Dubey for his remarks against the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna.

As per the letter sent by an Advocate-on-Record, Dubey said that the "Supreme Court is taking the country towards anarchy" and that "Chief Justice of India Sanijv Khanna is responsible for the civil wars taking place in the country." The comments were made taking objection to the Supreme Court setting timelines for the President and Governors to act on Bills.

It was also alleged that Dubey made communally polarising statements in the context of the Court's intervention in the petitions challenging the Waqf Amendment Act.

The AoR, who filed the petition before AG R Venkataramani under Section 15(1)(b) of the Contempt of Courts Act, submitted that Dubey's comments are "deeply derogatory" and "dangerously provocative". "He recklessly attributes national unrest to the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, thus scandalising the highest judicial office in the country and attempting to provoke public dissent, outrage and possible unrest," the letter said.

Such comments, without any basis, constitute a grave attack on the integrity and independence of the judiciary, the letter stated, seeking criminal contempt action against the deliberate attempt to vilify the Court.

After Dubey's comments created a huge controversy, BJP National President JP Nadda said that those were not the party's views and were the personal statements of the MP and that the BJP disagreed with such statements.