SC refuses to go into tweets by a lawyer against judges

The Supreme Court today refused to be dragged into a controversy over some tweets of senior activist lawyer Indira Jaising allegedly making certain remarks against judges who had delivered the March 20 verdict on the SC/ST Act.

A senior counsel who mentioned the tweets of Jaising said that junior lawyers who dare to make any insinuation against the apex court are punished but senior lawyers go scot free.

A bench of Justices Adarsh Goel and U U Lalit, who had passed the March 20 verdict said, "Let it be. Please don't read the tweets. We have closed the matter".

Jaising, who appeared for an original complainant B K Gaikwad in the case, said a perjury action shall be initiated against appellant Dr Subhash Kashinath Mahajan for filing truncated FIR before the court.

She said the March 20 verdict shall be recalled by the court, as if the court had perused the full text of FIR, the judgement may not have been passed.

The bench said that matter was brought before us during the hearing and was alive of the fact while passing the verdict.

"We are dismissing the application for perjury action but would treat it as a review petition, which will be heard in chambers," the bench said.

Senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, appearing for Mahajan, asked the court not to hear Jaising saying she had made casteist remarks on a public platform against the judges.

He said that last year a junior lawyer had made certain remarks against the apex court registry and his license was suspended for one month by the court.

"She has said that she does not have any faith in the judges. She said that the judges were of upper caste. I can read the tweets," Hansaria said.

The bench said, "Leave it. Please don't read the tweets. We have closed the matter."