Comedian Kunal Kamra does not seem to back down and stop making derogatory tweets against the Supreme Court of India and to the Chief Justice of India. Contempt of Court motion was moved against the controversial comedian after it made some derogatory tweets against the Supreme Court of India for hearing Arnab Goswami's case during a public holiday and granting him bail.
The Attorney General of India KK Venugopal too had given his consent to move contempt against Kamra. However, Kamra refused to delete the tweets he made against the Supreme Court of India. Interestingly Twitter did not delete the Tweet of Kamra as well. As a result, Twitter was reportedly questioned today by a parliamentary panel for not removing stand-up comic Kunal Kamra's "offensive tweets".
Twitter policy head Mahima Kaul was grilled by the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill headed by the BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi. Both Ms. Lekhi and Congress leader Vivek Tankha took the lead in questioning Twitter for keeping the posts, said the sources.
ANI quoted BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi who said, "On Kunal's tweet, Twitter said that the post cannot be removed unless the court issues such orders."
"We've asked for an answer in 7 days. Since there are no laws in India regarding these, we have to talk to the top executives of such service providers," added Lekhi.
Twitter was also grilled over a recent tweet of Kamra abusing Chief Justice of India SA Bobde.
"Personal liberty is like Promotions in corporate India only those who don't have jokes on the boss get it," Kunal response on the joint parliament committee.