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Contempt of Court in Prashant Bhushan's tweets: First Thoughts

I fail to understand how the two tweets were not scandalous to the court. What else is contempt of the court if not attributing the 'destruction of democracy' to the 'last four CJIs' with a plain face in a microblogging site that reaches millions of people in seconds? A litigant is certainly entitled to criticize the court for a judgment or a series of judgements but to attribute the entire destruction of the political system to the Cheif Justices-en masse on Twitter, in my   little understanding of the law, is clearly not criticism. I am yet to read the entire judgment but it partly says that there was summer vacation of the SC when the CJI was riding the bike and hence the court was not kept in lockdown as alleged in the tweet. If this is the case, then the tweet is an absolutely scandalous lie. Most of the Twitter users would not go to check if the SC was in summer vacation. They read it and move on. Believing that the entire judiciary is corrupt. How will it not be ...