Supreme Court of India

The Matter of Anil Panjwani v..

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Reported as [2003] 3 S.C.R. 1179
Bench R.C. Lahoti and Brijesh Kumar JJ.
Decided 5 May 2003

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we allow the request to withdraw the affidavits and drop the proceedings with a note of caution that in future he must be D careful and may not give rise to any such occasion.again.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Contempt of Courts Act, 1971-Sec. I 4: Contempt Proceedings-Initiation of-Party making reckless and irresponsible allegations against a Supreme Court Judge during the course of hearing in appeal- Court found a/legations contemplllous but allowed him an opportunity lo withdraw the allegations­ Party stood by the a/legations-The Co11rt fo11nd him g11ilty of committing contempt-Hence directed appropriate action against him as per Section 14 of the Act and directed to lodge him in Jai/-Contemnor chose to contin11e his earlier stand-Right of hearing in the main matter-Held, it is a flexible rule

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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