The Kerala High Court on Thursday mentioned that social media is nice within the palms of deserving folks, however for some it’s “an unrestricted playground of their wildest inclinations” and mentioned freedom of speech and expression was a “valuable” proper, Some “abuse it excessively”.
Justice Devan Ramachandran’s feedback got here whereas referring to a social media put up by a former judicial officer who had made “derogatory” and “derogatory” remarks in regards to the orders handed by the excessive courtroom in relation to the probe. Self Proclaimed Antique Dealers Monson Mavunkali,
The courtroom mentioned the previous judicial officer had additionally made private assaults towards the decide.
Justice Ramachandran mentioned later that as a substitute of initiating motion towards him instantly underneath the Contempt of Court Act, he requested the previous judicial officer to seem earlier than the courtroom and inform the place it was going fallacious.
However, the previous judicial officer didn’t seem earlier than the courtroom, resulting in the listening to that he was a “coward”.
“The tragedy with the present day is that busy bodies feel that they can say and comment critically about anything on social media under the assumption that they will have no accountability.”
“Social media is good in the hands of good and deserving people. But for some it is an unrestrained playground of their wildest inclinations,” the courtroom mentioned.
The High Court later in its order mentioned that after the previous judicial officer was requested to seem earlier than it, he once more “responded” by “ridiculous” the courtroom and calling it “fascist”.
It additionally famous that the High Court Registry discovered that he had put up posts projecting himself as a martyr and threatening to hurt himself.
“Thus, the scenario is clear. The mindset of this person is nihilistic and therefore, I take this opportunity of listening to him assuming that he will not have anything meaningful to say,” Justice Ramachandran mentioned.
He additional acknowledged that free speech was “the key to intelligence” and that the facility of expression was “the most valuable and powerful aspect of human existence”, however that some “abuse freedom to the extreme”.
The courtroom mentioned it was the actions of people who “force” even right-minded residents to demand regulation of on-line house.
Justice Ramachandran mentioned he can solely punish the previous judicial officer for his “unnecessary statements”, which deem him irrelevant and “deprive him of his 15 minutes of fame”.
With these observations, the courtroom quashed the summons issued to the previous judicial officer and directed the High Court Registry to take mandatory motion as per legislation on the compilation of his posts, after acquiring mandatory orders from the Chief Justice.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
