Loose tongue remark by Supreme Court fans communal sentiments

New Delhi: The “loose tongue” remark by a vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala of Supreme Court on Friday has fanned communal sentiments across the country attracting sharp reactions on the apex court’s judicial overreach. 

While refusing to entertain Nupur Sharma's plea for clubbing of FIRs lodged in various states against her for the remark on prophet Mohammad, the bench said her "loose tongue" has "set the entire country on fire" and asked her to immediately apologise to the nation for her remarks.

The court's observations against the suspended BJP leader come in the backdrop of the beheading of a tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur by Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, who had posted videos online, claiming that they were avenging an insult to Islam.

The “loose tongue” remark has not gone down well among the netizens of the country as many are demanding to initiate impeachment proceedings against the Supreme Court judges for such remarks.

Chartered Accountant Rajeev Gupta took to Twitter and said, “#NupurSharama is being subjected to illegal harassment by Supreme Court-This is a Textbook case of victim blaming and shaming. Time for @narendramodi  Govt to initiate Impeachment against Justice Kant & Pardiwala. (sic)”

#NupurSharama is being subjected to illegal harassment by Supreme Court-This is a Textbook case of victim blaming and shaming

Time for @narendramodi Govt to initiate Impeachment against Justice Kant & Pardiwalahttps://t.co/XRHsBlBJ2e
सुप्रीम कोर्ट नूपुर शर्मा #SudhirChaudhary

— CA RAJEEV GUPTA (@RajeevGuptaCA) July 2, 2022

An embarrassing Twitter trend #SupremeCourtIsCompromised started after the “loose tongue” remark continued for the second day in a row where people even compared the apex court with “Sharia” court.

A Twitter user Shriragh wrote: “Justice Pardiwala and Justice Kant are lucky that they mocked a Hindu woman Anyother religion scenario would have been different. We Hindus do not want Unelected Tyrants living off our tax money #ImpeachJusticeKant #SupremeCourtIsCompromised”

Justice Pardiwala and Justice Kant are lucky that they mocked a Hindu woman Anyother religion scenario would have been different. We Hindus do not want Unelected Tyrants living off our tax money #ImpeachJusticeKant #SupremeCourtIsCompromised pic.twitter.com/HiFbj6DyFr

— Shriragh (@sriragh5) July 2, 2022

Other embarrassing trends for the apex court on Twitter were – #BlackDayForIndianJudiciary, #ShariaCourtofIndia, #ImpeachJusticeKant, #SupremeCourtReformNow.