The Supreme Court will hear next week, a petition seeking contempt of court action against Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Member of Parliament (MP) Nishikant Dubey for his derogatory comments against the Apex Court and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna.
A lawyer today mentioned the matter before the Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih, stating that Attorney General R Venkataramani was yet to respond to the application seeking permission to initiate contempt proceedings against Dubey.
As per the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, a private individual can file a contempt of court petition in the Supreme Court only after obtaining the consent of the Attorney General or the Solicitor General.
The petitioner-lawyer had mentioned the matter before the same Bench on Monday too.
The top court of the country directed the lawyer on April 21 to file an application before the AG, seeking permission to file a case against the Lok Sabha MP.
During an interview with a news wire last week, Dubey said that CJI Khanna was to blame for all civil wars in the country.
Following his comments, certain lawyers had written to the AG seeking permission to file contempt of court petitions against Dubey under the Contempt of Courts Act.
Dubey’s comments followed the Supreme Court’s intervention in the petitions challenging the Waqf Amendment Act, leading the Government of India to put on hold for the time being, certain provisions of the Waqf Amendment Act 2025.
Earlier, Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar had said that judges in the country have no accountability and the law of the land did not apply to them.
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