05 October 2017

National

Fed Up With Constant Abuses, Harish Salve Reveals In Supreme Court He Deleted His Twitter account

Salve said he had to face abusive tweets once when he was appearing in a case related to a Christian medical college.





Senior Supreme Court lawyer Harish Salve revealed in court that he had deleted his Twitter account fed up with constant personal abuses.

“I have deleted my Twitter account,” said Salve in the Supreme Court while hearing on whether MPs and MLAs can get away by issuing reckless statements on pending criminal investigations.

Salve said he had to face abusive tweets once when he was appearing in a case related to a Christian medical college.

"It is so disturbing. I was appearing for Christian College and when I came back from Court, I saw so many offensive comments that I decided to close my account. They say all kinds of things under the guise of personal views and then there is no accountability," said Salve.

The Supreme Court on Thursday referred to a five-judge constitution bench questions raised by Salve and Fali S Nariman.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the questions raised by senior advocates Harish Salve and Fali S Nariman were required to be dealt by a larger bench.

The bench, which also comprised Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, said it was concerned over the misuse of social media platforms and said people disseminated wrong information even about the court proceedings.

Nariman, who is assisting the bench as an amicus curiae, concurred with the observation of the bench and said that a lot of misinformation and abuses are there on social media platforms and he has stopped looking at them.

Salve said that now private players were more into infringing the privacy rights and such things are no more restricted to the state only.

(With PTI inputs)