Supreme Court of India

Three Cheers Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. v. C.E.S.C. Ltd.

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Reported as [2008] 14 S.C.R. 789
Bench S. B. Sinha and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 20 October 2008

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What the Court ordered

We hold that a contempt in respect of the Krishna -:r Kishore Mukhopadhyay cannot be proceeded with, since on the given facts, with utmost respect to His Lordship we come to the conclusion that the said Krishna Kishore E Mukhopadhyay, being the appellant in the other matter (APOT No.126 of 2008), cannot be said to be responsible to hand over the materials to the Joint Receivers.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Contempt of Courts Act, 1970/Contempt of Courts (Calcutta High Court) Rules, 1975- Interlocutory order of Court restraining the defendant in a defamation suit from telecast- c ing and broadcasting a programme which allegedly defamed the plaintiff - On the date of confirmation of the order, Joint Receivers appointed ex parte - Direction to them to take pas- session of materials pertaining to the programme - Defen- dants not handing over the materials to the Joint Receivers, stating that they had already given the same to the officials of - ._.,.,.., plaintiff - The fact affirmed on affidavit

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