Supreme Court of India

M.B. Sanghi, Advocate v. High Court of Punjab and Haryana and Ors.

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Reported as [1991] 3 S.C.R. 312
Bench A.M. Ahmadi J.
Decided 31 July 1991

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The appellant had made an attack on the learned Sub­ ordinate Judge which was disparaging in character and derogatory to c his dignity and would vitally shake the confidence of the public in him and that the aspersions made by the appellant had the effect of scandalising the Court in such a way as to create distrust in the people's mind and impair confidence of the prople in Court. The appellant has, therefore, been rightly held guilty of having committed the contempt of court unde

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