The Bombay high court has issued a criminal contempt notice against author Arundhati Roy on Wednesday commenting that she believed she was “above the law”, reported the Indian Express and others.
The contempt notice was issued for her views on the arrest of Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and the rejection of his bail plea, which was published in Outlook magazine earlier this year.
The court issued the notice while rejecting Saibaba’s bail plea on Wednesday who was arrested last year for alleged links with Maoists. He has been on bail since June, extended later till 31 December.
Justice A B Chaudhari of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court commented on the language in the article as “nasty” and was quoted as saying that “calling the government and police as being ‘afraid’ of the applicant, ‘abductor’ and ‘thief’, and the magistrate from a ‘small town’, demonstrate the surly, rude and boorish attitude of the author in a most tolerant country like India.”
Roy’s article was also reproduced in the judgment.
Chaudhari also read into the article to have a “game plan” to secure an order in Saibaba’s favour and said that the article was written with “prima facie with a mala fide motive to interfere in the administration of justice.....The author has even gone to the extent of scandalising and questioning the credibility of the higher judiciary by giving examples of the orders of bail granted to Babu Bajrangi, Maya Kodnani and Amit Shah.”
She has to reply to the notice by 25 January 2016.
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A few years ago she made some idiotic remarks and got a sound metaphorical thrashing from Ramachandra Guha.
Now she's at it again. She embodies the very worst of our novo "intelligentsia" - sophisticated, gaseous and a consistent belief in her own infallibility. Unlike Karan Thapar, Shashi Tharoor and Guha she is incapable of anything except the most superficial analysis and unable to view the perspectives of other or attribute anything but a shallow motive.
The irony is that she and her husband has been facing charges of misappropriation of forest land for years.
Why can't this lady take a break and go on a trip to Mali or something?
I wonder why her grabbing of forest land along with hubby is not getting the attention it deserves from a media fawning over her polemical -- but pretty -- prose.
Writing is not about showing up uncommon words, it's about communicating thoughts simply. The old british writers did not use uncommon words of their time, they were lucid, like RK Narayan. Arundhati is so fake it reeks of fauxness within a few paras of that book. Doesnt take much skill, just a good thesaurus.
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