A day after offering his 'unconditional apology' to the Delhi High Court in connection with a criminal contempt case over his alleged remarks against a judge of the court, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri issued a statement defending himself.
"I merely posted the article as a tweet thread, citing the source and the author," he said and went on to explain "the Delhi High Court issued a suo moto contempt of court against Drishtikone, Shri S. Gurumurthy and myself. The article was taken down by the author with an apology immediately, followed by Shri S Gurumurthy unconditionally apologising in court. This left me with no locus standi and I was morally and intellectually obligated to apologise for sharing information from a source that had retracted the article and apologised."
