Prashant Bhushan to Supreme Court: ‘Made a ‘genuine mistake’ in my tweets against Centre’  

Prashant Bhushan.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, on Thursday, admitted before the Supreme Court that he made a “genuine mistake” by tweeting that the government submitted fabricated minutes of meeting of the high-powered selection committee on the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as an interim CBI director. Earlier, he had also tweeted about it, in February.

I have just confirmed personally from the Leader of Opposition Mr Kharge that no discussion or decision in HPC meet was taken re appt of Nageswara Rao as interim Director CBI.The govt appears to have misled the court and perhaps submitted fabricated minutes of the HPC meeting! https://t.co/MbEC5YLjkD

— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) February 1, 2019

After Bhushan’s statement, attorney general KK Venugopal told a bench comprising Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Navin Sinha he would like to withdraw his contempt plea filed against the noted lawyer. He also stood by his earlier statement that he did not want any punishment for Bhushan in the matter.

However, Bhushan filed an application in the court seeking recusal of Justice Arun Mishra from hearing the contempt petition filed by Venugopal, while refusing to render an apology before the bench for the same.

The bench posted the matter for further hearing on April 3.

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