HC adjourns contempt plea against Arundhati Roy for 4 weeks

February 23, 2016 16:20

The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court has adjourned the hearing on criminal contempt petition against noted author Arundhati Roy for four weeks as her plea challenging the proceedings is still pending before the Supreme Court.

A division bench comprising justices Bhushan Gavai and Pradeep Deshmukh, after hearing Roy's counsel yesterday, made it clear that the judicial propriety demands that they must wait for the outcome of the special leave petition filed by the author, which is currently pending before the apex court.

The contempt notice was issued against Roy by HC Justice Arun Chaudhari in last December for her views published in a weekly magazine on the arrest of alleged naxal sympathiser and Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and subsequent rejection of his bail plea early last year.

The high court had observed that Roy's article was "prima facie with a mala fide intention to interfere in the administration of justice".

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