Vivek Agnihotri apologises unconditionally before the Delhi HC

“The Kashmir Files”, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri submitted an unconditional apology to the Delhi High Court. His apology is for his 2018 allegations on a judge. In 2018, he had said that the judge was biased in granting relief to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon violence case.

The court had initiated contempt proceedings against Vivek Agnihotri, writer Anand Ranganathan, and news portal Swarajya. Moreover, the court took note of the remarks against Justice S.Muralidhar. Presently, the judge is the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.

Earlier, the court asked Vivek Agnihotri to be present in person on March 16.

Subsequently, the filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, submitted an apology affidavit through his lawyer. Moreover, he informed the court that he had deleted the tweet in question.

Apparently, the court finding said that, Mr. Agnihotri had not deleted it, but Twitter had taken it down.

Soon after the court quashed activist Gautam Navlakh’s house arrest order and transit remand, Vivek said that the judge was biased as he was associated with Mr.Navlakha’s family.

Furthermore, RSS ideologue S.Gurumurthy was also named over some of his remarks, but later apologized, hence the case was dropped.

Mr.Navlakha, 70, was later arrested in 2020 and is currently in house arrest in the case. It is alleged that he had made inflammatory speeches at the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017.

The police claimed that these speeches triggered violence near the Koregaon Bhima war memorial on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra city.