More than 3,000 legal personalities, including 12 retired judges, have signed a solidarity statement extending support to senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, who was recently found guilty of contempt of court by the Supreme Court for his tweets against the CJI and judiciary. “To hold that such criticism shakes the foundations of the judiciary and needs to be dealt with an iron hand, appears to be a disproportionate response which could, in fact, diminish the reputation of the Court,” a part of the statement read