Supreme Court to examine if reference to alleged corruption in judiciary would per se amount to contempt

The top court said this while rejecting arguments by activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan who said that his 2009 reference to alleged corruption in the court did not refer to any “financial” or “pecuniary” corruption, but was a broad reference to the lack of propriety among those who held the august office of the Chief Justice of India.

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