Prashant Bhushan Case and Flaws in Contempt of Courts Act

In this episode of ‘Itihaas Ke Panne’, senior journalist and writer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay revisits the history of the Contempt of Courts Act.

Just a day before Independence Day, the Supreme Court tried to restrict freedom of expression to a limit when it declared senior advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty for his remarks on the CJI and the court. In this episode of ‘Itihaas Ke Panne’, senior journalist and writer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay revisits the history of the Contempt of Courts Act.