NEW DELHI: If reckless circulation of half-truths, videos of the deceased, and revealing of her identity in social and electronic media had forced the Supreme Court to order their deletion on Tuesday, two days later it found itself in the middle of a banter between senior advocate Kapil Sibal and solicitor general Tushar Mehta.
Sibal on Thursday complained to a bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud that ever since he has started appearing for West Bengal in the suo motu proceedings initiated by the SC, there are innuendos being circulated in social media about his “Swiss bank account”.
Mehta said, “This allegation (about his Swiss bank account) was started by his present client (Arvind Kejriwal) when he was not the chief minister of Delhi.” This drew peels of laughter from the lawyers crowding the courtroom.
Later, when the court was apprised of the threats being given to resident doctors at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital, Mehta said there is something serious happening. “A minister has virtually threatened that if anyone points a finger at the CM (Mamata Banerjee), their finger would be broken,” he said. Sibal said, “What about the statement of the leader of opposition (Suvendu Adhikari) who says ‘bullets will fly’?”
The bench asked both Mehta and Sibal not to politicise the matter and asked both the CBI and Kolkata Police to submit their status reports on Sep 5 on the investigations into the rape-murder of the doctor and the vandalism at the hospital on Aug 14 night, respectively.
Sibal on Thursday complained to a bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud that ever since he has started appearing for West Bengal in the suo motu proceedings initiated by the SC, there are innuendos being circulated in social media about his “Swiss bank account”.
Mehta said, “This allegation (about his Swiss bank account) was started by his present client (Arvind Kejriwal) when he was not the chief minister of Delhi.” This drew peels of laughter from the lawyers crowding the courtroom.
Later, when the court was apprised of the threats being given to resident doctors at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital, Mehta said there is something serious happening. “A minister has virtually threatened that if anyone points a finger at the CM (Mamata Banerjee), their finger would be broken,” he said. Sibal said, “What about the statement of the leader of opposition (Suvendu Adhikari) who says ‘bullets will fly’?”
The bench asked both Mehta and Sibal not to politicise the matter and asked both the CBI and Kolkata Police to submit their status reports on Sep 5 on the investigations into the rape-murder of the doctor and the vandalism at the hospital on Aug 14 night, respectively.