{"id":30893,"date":"2013-11-20T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30893"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:16:44","slug":"prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Bhushan apologises to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30894\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court\/prashant-bhushan-4\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?fit=270%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"270,186\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Prashant Bhushan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?fit=270%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30894\" alt=\"Prashant Bhushan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?resize=270%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"270\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?resize=150%2C103&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court took exception to counsel Prashant Bhushan&#8217;s comment that it was hesitant in taking action against Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati, but later Wednesday accepted his apology that he did not intend to lower the esteem of the court or hurt judges.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha, hearing the matter of irregularities in coal allocation, capped the controversy as it recorded Bhushan&#8217;s statement: &#8220;I have highest regard for the court and if the statement of mine has hurt the court, I apologise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the outset of the hearing, Justice Lodha said that when the extracts of the interview by Prashant Bhushan to a news magazine were brought to their notice, they were deeply hurt.<\/p>\n<p>More so, because such a statement came from an arguing counsel and that too Prashant Bhushan.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court took exception to counsel Prashant Bhushan&#8217;s comment that it was hesitant in taking action against Attorney General G.E. 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Lodha, hearing the matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5338,2578,27020],"class_list":["post-30893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-counsel-prashant-bhushan","tag-justice-r-m-lodha","tag-prashant-bhushan-apologises-to-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prashant Bhushan apologises to Supreme Court - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prashant Bhushan apologises to Supreme Court\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prashant Bhushan apologises to Supreme Court - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prashant Bhushan apologises to Supreme Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-20T10:16:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/11\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea\"},\"headline\":\"Prashant Bhushan apologises to Supreme Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-20T10:16:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/prashant-bhushan-apologises-supreme-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2013\\\/11\\\/Prashant-Bhushan.jpg?fit=270%2C186&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"counsel Prashant Bhushan\",\"Justice R.M. 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