Breaking news live: Judges enjoy no protection from jokes, comedian Kunal Kamra says in SC : HC adjourns matters in TRP quashing and transfer to CBI petition by ARG, to February 12; directs all pleadings to be completed by Feb 9; State counsel Kapil Sibal’s statement on no coercive steps to continue till then.


Breaking news live: Judges enjoy no protection from jokes, comedian Kunal Kamra says in SC : HC adjourns matters in TRP quashing and transfer to CBI petition by ARG, to February 12; directs all pleadings to be completed by Feb 9; State counsel Kapil Sibal's statement on no coercive steps to continue till then.

Comedian Kunal Kamra, facing contempt for allegedly caricaturing the SC in an undignified and derogatory manner, tells SC that SC judges are the most powerful but enjoy no protection from jokes.

“I do not believe that any high authority, including Judges, would find themselves unable to discharge their duties only on account of being the subject of satire or joke,” Kamra says. SC to hear petitions seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against him later in the day.


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