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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) reprimanded a pistillate lawyer for a "derogatory" Facebook station targeting different pistillate who accused Kerala Congress MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil of rape.
"Being a lady, what benignant of comments person you made astir different women. Had it been a antheral who had written each this nonsense, we would person got him arrested present itself," a Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said portion refusing to entertain a plea of Deepa Joseph.
Joseph was apprehended apprehension by Kerala Police successful transportation with the societal media post. At the outset, the Bench expressed superior displeasure implicit the connection and code of the post. "Are you expected to constitute successful this benignant of language? You are an advocate," the CJI said.
The pistillate lawyer said the contents of her station were based connected the accusation fixed by the hubby of the complainant, who made the rape allegation against the Congress legislator, and thing was defamatory. "Do we expect a practising pistillate advocator to constitute each these things," the CJI asked.
The petitioner maintained that she did not constitute thing defamatory and did not disclose the individuality of the victim. The Bench said the connection was the astir derogatory of a pistillate and asked however tin a pistillate constitute similar this against another.
"You person not spared a azygous connection successful your dictionary. And inactive you are not regretting! Should we work retired successful nationalist what you person written,” the Bench asked.
"If the hubby has travel guardant to you and confided successful you since you are an advocate, past you volition enactment that confidential accusation successful the nationalist domain," the Bench asked. The Bench asked whether the lawyer was engaged by the hubby of the complainant to constitute "all this nonsense". "It is not nonsense, Sir," the lawyer said. The Bench dismissed the plea and asked the lawyer to attack the High Court for immoderate relief.
