A parliamentary joint committee reportedly questioned Twitter on Thursday for not taking action against comedian Kunal Kamra’s “offensive tweets” about the Chief Justice of India earlier this month, as per ANI reports.

A joint committee on Parliament for Data Protection, headed by MP Meenakshi Lekhi, grilled the social media giant’s Twitter’s policy head.  

The standup comedian faces contempt cases over his tweets targeting the Supreme Court for granting TV anchor Arnab Goswami interim bail after his arrest in a 2018 abetment to suicide case.

Eight people, mostly lawyers, have filed cases against him, as per reports.

On November 12, Attorney General KK Venugopal, granting initiation for criminal contempt cases against Kamra, said in a letter, “It is time that people understand attacking the Supreme Court unjustifiably and brazenly will lead to punishment.”

A day after, on November 13, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against Kamra.

In response, however, Kunal Kamra tweeted, “I don’t intend to retract my tweets or apologise for them. I believe they speak for themselves… No lawyers, no apology, no fine, no waste of space.”

In a tweet addressed to Venugopal, the 32-year-old said, “The tweets I recently put out have been found in contempt of court. All that I tweeted was from my view of the Supreme Court of India giving a partial decision in favour of a Prime Time Loudspeaker.”

Twitter is already been facing a lot of flak in India for geo-tagging Ladakh as a part of China and promised the panel that it will be corrected by November 30.

The US microblogging site’s chief privacy officer Damien Kieran sent an apology letter to the panel over the lapse.