S Gurumurthy tweets statement on unconditional withdrawal of his tweet sharing offending article on Justice S Muralidhar

Pursuant to its order discharging S Gurumurthy as a party to a contempt case initiated by it, the Delhi High Court has allowed him to put out a statement clarifying the unconditional withdrawal of his tweet sharing an offending article on Justice S Muralidhar within 72 hours..The statement further informs that the offending article stood withdrawn by its author who has also tendered an unconditional apology for the same..In October last year, Gurumurthy was dropped from the list of respondents in the suo moto contempt case after he offered to retweet the unconditional apology tendered by the author of the offending article titled ‘Why has Delhi High Court Justice Muralidhar’s relationship with Gautam Navlakha not been disclosed?’..Subsequently, Gurumurthy had filed an application before Court, seeking exemption from the condition of retweeting the hyperlink of the author's apology on the ground that it was not available on any of the social media platforms or the internet..In view of the "new ground-level reality", a Division Bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, waived off the condition requiring Gurumurthy to hyperlink the author's apology and instead, allowed him to tweet the following statement within 72 hours:.“In compliance with order dated 14.10.2019 passed by the Hon’ble High Court which is attached (link), I have already clarified that the article tweeted by me on 01.10.2018 stands withdrawn by its original author who has tendered an unconditional apology for the same. Consequently, I have already unconditionally withdrawn my tweet dated 01.10.2018.”Statement to be tweeted by S Gurumurthy.Consequently, Gurumurthy made the following tweets on January 24.. The contemptuous article was published in a blog called Drishtikone, after Justice Muralidhar passed an order setting aside the transit remand order against activist Gautam Navlakha in October last year..During the proceedings, Gurumurthy had argued that he could not be held guilty under the Contempt of Court Act as he had merely retweeted the offending article without any endorsement or comments..Senior Advocate Arvind Nigam appeared as Amicus Curiae with Advocates Rajshekhar Rao, Amit George, Anandh Venkataramani, Rishabh Dheer..S Gurumurthy was represented by Senior Advocates Mahesh Jethmalani, Jayant K Sud with Advocates Ravi Sharma, Mohit Mudgal, Sanya Sud, Sachin Gupta, S Poddar..Read the Order: