On 14 August, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the judge Arun Mishra, held advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt of court for two tweets he had posted in June 2020, with references to the incumbent and previous chief justices of India. In a 2009 interview with the Tehelka magazine, Prashant Bhushan had also said that half of the last sixteen or seventeen chief justices of India were corrupt.
