Attorney General gives consent for Contempt of Court proceedings against comedian Kunal Kamra
New Delhi: Attorney General KK Venugopal on Thursday gave his permission to initiate contempt proceedings against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra over his tweets against the Supreme Court.
Advocate Rizwan Siddiquee had reportedly sought to initiate contempt proceedings for four of Kamra’s tweets over the Supreme Court granting interim bail to Arnab Goswami and had written to Venugopal seeking his consent.
“If this kind of unruly and salacious statements are allowed to go unchecked, influencers having millions of social media followers would start making reckless allegations and diabolical statements against the judges,” he had written in the letter.
Siddiquee, according to Bar and Bench, also highlighted that Kamra had posted a morphed picture of the Supreme Court building, giving it an orange tint and depicting a BJP flag hoisted in the foyer of the Supreme Court.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
