Contempt case against Prashant Bhushan: Vijay Kurle files intervention plea in SC citing misplaced reliance on contempt ruling against him

Advocate Vijay Kurle has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking to intervene in the contempt proceedings against Advocate Prashant Bhushan. .In his application, Kurle contends that Bhushan has misinterpreted and placed incorrect reliance on a ruling convicting Kurle of contempt. Kurle states that the ruling in question is currently under challenge before the top Court..According to Kurle, Bhushan in his interim application cites the ruling while substantiating how an incorrect procedure was adopted by Justice Rohinton Nariman’s bench in assuming jurisdiction where there existed none..The genesis of the case against Kurle had been a Supreme Court order passed in March last year in which advocate Mathews J Nedumpara was sentenced to three months in jail by a Bench led by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman for attempting to browbeat judges in a matter related to the designation of senior advocates..Following the March ruling, Advocate Vijay Kurle had made a complaint to the President of India and the Chief Justice of India alleging "illegalities" committed by Justice Nariman and sought an In-House inquiry procedure against him..The complaint prompted the initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against Advocate Kurle, culminating in the Supreme Court Bench convicting Kurle and two others for contempt of Court earlier this year..No ill-founded sympathy for Lawyers who try to browbeat or threaten Judges: Supreme Court holds three lawyers guilty of Contempt of Court.Vijay Kurle now anticipates that Bhushan may misuse a per incuriam judgment against Kurle and thus seeks to intervene in the Criminal Contempt case against Bhushan.."Prashant Bhushan having relied on the order against the conviction of the instant applicant and alluding (to) its correctness certainly cannot claim ignorance that the order by the bench led by Justice Nariman initiating contempt proceedings never mentioned it to be suo motu."reads the IA..Kurle thus apprehends that he may be "prejudicially impacted" if the Court were to dispose of Bhushan's IA, which is stated to have wrongly relied on the ruling against Kurle..The case against Bhushan concerns two tweets criticising the judiciary. Bhushan was hauled up by the top Court for his tweets after the Court received a petition against it. A Justice Arun Mishra led bench has now reserved orders in the suo motu contempt proceedings..(Read more related stories)."No one can claim infallibility, including judges", Dave argues as Supreme Court reserves order in contempt case against Prashant Bhushan.Do you know I don’t allow my daughter to practice in SC, Justice Rohinton Nariman to Mathews Nedumpara