Supreme Court of India

E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad v. T. Narayanan Nambiar

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Reported as [1971] 1 S.C.R. 697
Decided 31 July 1970

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Contempt of Court-What is-Chief Minister of State making re111ark.1 in public derogatory of the Judiciary and courts--Sought to justify making them in terms of his political ideology based on the teachings of Marx am/ Engels--Jf guilty of contempt-Constitution of India, Art. 19(1) and (2)-Scope of in relation to contempt of court. The appellant, who was the Chief Minister of Kerala at the time. at a press conference held by him on November 9, 1967, made various criti· cal remarks relating to the judiciary referring to it inter alia as "an instru­ ment of oppression" and the Judges as

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