Contempt plea in SC against jailed JNUSU prez, SAR Geelani

A plea, seeking contempt action against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, former DU lecturer SAR Geelani and few others, was on Tuesday filed in Supreme Court on the ground that they allegedly termed execution of Afzal Guru as “judicial killing”.

The contempt plea refers to the Apex Court verdict, pronounced on August 4, 2005, in the case, by which Afzal Guru was handed down death penalty for being part of the conspiracy in the attack on Parliament. “The so-called cultural event’s pamphlets spoke about the judicial killing of Afzal Guru. The main topic was judicial killing of Afzal Guru which outright tantamount to criminal contempt as the respondents are calling the SC judges as killers who have been projected to have committed judicial killing of Afzal Guru,” the plea, filed by Pune-based lawyer Vineet Dhanda, said.