A petition filed by the Delhi High Court Bar Association seeking criminal contempt proceedings against Gurumurthy was scheduled for consideration on 6 July by a division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh.
Vivek Agnihotri had reposted an article by Dristhikone on Gautam Navlakha who was arrested on charges of threatening integrity and sovereignty of India.
The Thuglak magazine had recently decided to re-publish its articles dating back to Periyar's Salem rally in 1971 where he had paraded naked idols of Sri Rama and Sita with garlands of shoes.
One name in that stood out in the list of 12 officers and created quite the flutter, was SK Srivastava, the man who had been leading the charge against NDTV.