Supreme Court of India

Justice (retd.) Markandey Katju v. The Lok Sabha & Anr.

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Reported as [2016] 11 S.C.R. 621
Bench T. S. Thakur, R. Banumathi and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 15 December 2016

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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

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