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.
Delhi High Court has discharged Vivek Agnihotri in a 2018 Contempt-of-Court case after he appeared in person and reiterated his remorse over his remark.
In a joint statement posted on Twitter 3 other jurors said they knew about and stand by the comments made on The Kashmir Files by the chief jury Nadav Lapid.
Israeli filmmaker and jury head at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Nadav Lapid, referred to the Kashmiri Hindu genocide perpetrated by Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorists in the late 1980s and early 1990s as “vulgar propaganda.”