A law student has filed a petition in the Supreme Court for the initiation of contempt proceedings against cartoonist Rachita Taneja for her tweets criticising the judiciary, Live Law reported on Monday.
Kashyap, in his petition filed on Saturday, alleged that Taneja’s social media posts shook public faith in the judiciary and democracy by “directly attacking and making insinuations” against the Supreme Court.
He added that Taneja was a social media influencer with thousands of followers across different platforms and her posts were being widely shared by people attacking the judiciary, according to PTI.
Attorney General KK Venugopal had last week approved Kashyap’s request to initiate contempt proceeding against Taneja, who is the creator of webcomic Sanitary Panels.
The case against Taneja is related to two tweets she made about the Supreme Court granting bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in an abetment to suicide case from 2014.
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