Tweet by Kunal Kamra "grossly obnoxious", "deliberate insult to CJI SA Bobde": AG KK Venugopal grants consent for contempt (again)

Attorney General KK Venugopal has yet again granted his consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for his latest tweet against Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. .The fresh letter seeking action against Kamra was based on his latest tweet in which he was seen holding up his fingers while in an aircraft with the text: "One of these 2 fingers is for CJI Arvind Bobde...ok let me not confuse you it’s the middle one.".The complainant, Anuj Singh, is an advocate at the Allahabad High Court. He had requested AG Venugopal to grant consent to initiate contempt action against Kamra, claiming that the tweet had gone viral and brought disrepute to the institution of the judiciary. .Who are the petitioners seeking contempt of court action against Kunal Kamra?.While granting consent to Singh, AG Venugopal noted that the tweet against the CJI was "grossly obnoxious" and would "equally be an insult to the Supreme Court of India."."The said tweet is grossly vulgar and obnoxious and I have no doubt that it would tend to lower the authority of the Supreme Court of India as well as undermine the confidence that the litigant public has on the institution itself", the AG said in his letter granting consent..Post Attorney General's consent, contempt of court petition filed in Supreme Court against Kunal Kamra.On November 12, Venugopal had granted permission to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Kamra based on complaints from various law students and lawyers who had drawn the attention of the law officer to four tweets by Kamra. .[Breaking] Attorney General KK Venugopal gives consent to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Kunal Kamra.The following were the four tweets for which the AG had granted consent:1. The Supreme Court of this country is the most Supreme joke of this country...2 .The pace at which the Supreme Court operates in matters of “National Interests” it’s time we replace Mahatma Gandhi’s photo with Harish Salve’s photo...3. DY Chandrachud is a flight attendant serving champagne to first class passengers after they’re fast tracked through, while commoners don’t know if they’ll ever be boarded or seated, let alone served.4. All lawyers with a spine must stop the use of the prefix “Hon’ble” while referring to the Supreme Court or its judges. Honour has left the building long back...Kamra also posted a morphed image of the Supreme Court building with an orange shade and depicting a BJP flag hoisted in the foyer of the Supreme Court..The background of those tweets was an order passed by the Supreme Court granting bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief, Arnab Goswami..The Attorney General had maintained that the four tweets by Kamra were "not only in bad taste but clearly cross the line between humor and contempt of the court."