Rajya Sabha member and Congress spokesperson Abhisek Manu Singhvi has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of selling private assaults on judges of the Supreme Court. The Congress claimed that such campaigns are used to pressurise and affect free decision-making of the judiciary.
“There’s a pattern in attacks on judges. It’s an institutionalized and targeted attack. Such trolls are encouraged by BJP leaders to terrorise the judicary,” Singhvi mentioned in his assertion.
The Congress spokesperson mentioned that if the BJP felt accountable, their occasion would have accomplished a little bit of introspection and calibration on the act accomplished by Nupur Sharma, the previous occasion spokesperson whose remarks on Prophet Muhammad sparked furore and condemnation from inside India and overseas.
“An army of trolls is sent out by the BJP to fabricate and disseminate false information about the judges and altered photos are published to suggest a false closeness with Congress leaders,” Singhvi mentioned.
Earlier, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala had refused to listen to a plea by Nupur Sharma to membership a number of FIRs filed in opposition to her on her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Denying aid to the ex-BJP chief, the highest court docket had come down closely on her and held her solely chargeable for an setting of unrest throughout the nation.
Following the highest court docket’s observations, Justice J B Pardiwala was closely trolled on social media. Justice Pardiwala later expressed concern over the usage of digital media to ship “personalised opinions” on the selections of the court docket.
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