Supreme Court of India
Justice (retd.) Markandey Katju v. The Lok Sabha & Anr.
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From the headnote
Constitution of India: Arts. 32 and 105(2) - Derogatory remarks in Facebook post by retired Judge of Supreme Court against Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose - Lok Sabha as well as Rajya Sabha by passing resolution condemned the remark.- - Writ petition seeking quashing of the resolutions - Maintainability of the petition - Held: Though Parliament/Houses have freedom of speech in Parliament and anything said by Members in the Parliament is immune from any proceeding in the Court - However, such immunity is not available to collective expression of opinio11 by all Members culmi11ati11g
Authorities it was built on
- 2007 Raja Ram Pal v. The Honble Speaker, Lok Sabha & Ors.
- 1998 P.V. Narasimha Rao Etc. Etc. v. State (cbl/spe) Etc. Etc.
- 1964 Special Reference No. 1 of 1964 v..
- 1970 Tej Kiran Jain and Others v. N. Sanjiva Reddy and Others
- 2010 Amarinder Singh v. Special Commitiee, Punjab Vidhan,sabha & Others
- 2014 Justice Ripusudan Dayal (retd ) & Ors. v. State of M.P. & Ors.
- 1958 Pandit M. S. M. Sharma v. Shri Sri Krishna Sinha and Others
- 1960 Pandit M. S. M. Sharma v. Dr. Shree Krishna Sinha and Others.
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