New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Monday a plea seeking contempt action against jailed JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, former DU iecturer SAR Gilani and few other on the ground that they allegedly termed the execution of Afzal Guru as “judicial killing .” A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justics R Banumathi and U Latlit fixed the contempt plea for hearing on Monday when the plea alleged that by terming the execution as “Judicial killing,” Kumar and others have committed contempt of the court which had delivered the verdict. The plea filed by lawyer Vineet Dhanda, refers to the apex court verdict, pronounced on August 4, 2005 in the case, by which Guru was handed down death penalty for being part of the conspiracy in the attack on Parliament. “The so-called cultural event’s pamphlets spoke about the judicial killing of Afzal Guru. The main topic of the ‘cultural event’s pamphlets spoke about judicial killing of Afzal Guru which outright tantamount to criminal judges of the apex court as killers judicial killing of Afzal Guru, the plea said.
