The Supreme Court on Friday sent a show-cause notice to the Assistant Secretary of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, asking why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against him for a letter sent by him to Arnab Goswami.
The court was hearing the Republic editor-in-chief’s challenge to the breach of privilege notice sent by the Assembly to him over his comments regarding Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other politicians during his coverage of the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
While the case was going on, the Assistant Secretary sent a letter to Goswami on 13 October, in which he warned the journalist against disclosing privileged documents related to the case in the materials being submitted to the court.