Contempt plea in SC against jailed JNUSU Prez, SAR Geelani

A plea, seeking contempt action against JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, former DU lecturer SAR Geelani and few others, was today filed in Supreme Court on the ground that they allegedly termed execution of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru as "judicial killing".
The contempt plea refers to the apex court verdict, pronounced on August 04, 2005 in the case, by which Afzal Guru was handed down death penalty for being part of the conspiracy in the attack on the Parliament House.
"The so-called cultural event's pamphlets spoke about the judicial killing of Afzal Guru. The main topic of the 'cultural event' organised was judicial killing of Afzal Guru which outright tantamount to criminal contempt as the Respondents are calling the judges of the Apex Court as killers who have been projected to have committed judicial killing of Afzal Guru," the plea, filed by Pune-based lawyer Vineet Dhanda, said.

The plea further said, "Afzal and Yakub Memon were no martyrs as projected by the group of students of JNU. The Supreme Court has already passed a detailed judgement in both cases after giving due consideration as per law after going through the evidence."
Pamphlets were allegedly distributed during the "so- called" cultural event held at JNU on February 9 that termed death sentence to Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhatt as "judicial killing", it said.
The students, who organised the event, also used social media platforms and "tarnished" the image of Supreme Court, it alleged.
Besides Kanhaiya Kumar and Geelani, the plea has sought contempt action against Umar Khalid, Lenin Kumar, Anirban Bhattacharya, Shehla Rashid Shora and Ali Javed.