If the court was really bothered about trying to answer that question, they wouldn’t just rely on these sparse numbers – which also include hearings conducted after the tweet (29 June - 4 August), by the way, for no logical reason. To truly assess whether this was a fair criticism, the court could have looked at how Bhushan was far from the only person criticising the reduced functioning of the court (take for example Justice AP Shah, the former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court), as well as the representations made to the court by the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Supreme Court Advocate-on-Record Association. It could have looked at the deluge of criticism heaped on its handling of the migrant crisis during this period, including from retired Supreme Court Justice Madan Lokur – none of which, by the way, resulted in any contempt cases. Lest you think this required the court to conduct some roving expedition to find out who had criticised it, more than sufficient examples were provided to the judges in Bhushan’s 142-page reply affidavit. None of that material is referred to by the judges when assessing whether his criticism was fair, even though that seems like a rather obvious thing to do.