'Law Will Take Its Course If Anybody Tries To Mess With Court' : CJI On Rajasthan MLA Questioning SC Order

The Chief Justice of India on Thursday took serious objection to a Rajasthan MLA criticising in the Legislative Assembly the order granting interim bail to filmmaker Vikram Bhatt's wife.

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant warned that the "law will take its own course if anybody tries to mess with the Court." The CJI added that merely because somebody is speaking in the Assembly, it cannot be assumed that they won't face any consequence.

A bench comprising CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi was hearing the petition of Vikram Bhatt and Shwetambari Bhatti seeking bail in a cheating case. After the bench dictated the order granting them bail, Senior Advocate Siddharth Dave, for the petitioners, told the bench about the comments made in the Rajasthan assembly about the interim bail granted to Vikram Bhatt's wife last week.

"When the interim bail was granted, they even questioned in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly how the court could grant the interim bail," Dave said.

"We know how to take strong action. Only because complaint belongs to Rajasthan and you can influence them?" CJI said.

CJI further said :

"If any of your machinery misadventures to speak anything, we can transfer in a minute everything to Bombay. You can't take benefit. We would like to give a stern warning. Nobody should be under the mistaken belief that because you can speak in Assembly therefore... The law will take it's own course, if anybody tries to mess with the court."