Former SC judge Markandey Katju tenders unconditional apology to top court for contemptuous remarks in his blog. SC accepts Justice Katju's apology and closes the contempt proceedings against him.


For the first time in the countrys judicial history, the apex court had issued suo motu contempt notice to its former judge on November 11. Katju, who is known for his vocal opinion on social media, had written blogs which had comments on the judges.


Justice Katju had been critical of the September 15 judgment that had set aside the death penalty for the convict in Keralas Soumya rape-murder case. Criticising the judgment in his Facebook post, Katju had said it needed to be reviewed in open court since it was regrettable that the court has not read Section 300 carefully. Section 300 of the IPC defines murder.