Supreme Court of India

O.P. Sharma & Ors. v. High Court of Punjab & Haryana

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Reported as [2011] 6 S.C.R. 301

Bench P. Sathasivam and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.

Decided 9 May 2011

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From the headnote

Contempt of Courts Act, 1971: ss. 2(c) and 12(1) proviso, Explanation - Criminal contempt of Court - Advocates abusing the Judicial Magistrate in filthy language and threatening him with dire consequences - Matter referred to High Court - Newspaper publishing the incident - Suo motu contempt proceedings initiated by High Court against the advocates and the owner, publisher and Editor of newspaper - Unconditional apology tendered by contemnors before High Court - On High Court's directions contemnors appearing before Judicial Magistrate concerned and tendering unconditional apology -

Authorities it was built on

1984 L.D. Jaikwal v. State of U.P. cited by 12
1998 In Re: Ajay Kumar Pandey, Advocate v. ---- cited by 3
2004 Daroga Singh and Ors. v. B.K. Pandey cited by 3
1998 Mahabir Prasad Singh v. M/s Jacks Aviation Pvt. Ltd. cited by 3
2003 Radha Mohan Lal v. Rajasthan High Court (jaipur Bench) cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2021 K. Anjinappa v. K.C. Krishna Reddy and Anr. relied on
2015 Chander Prakash Tyagi v. Shri Benarsi Das(dead) by Lrs. and Others relied on
2013 T.C. Gupta v. Bimal Kumar Dutta & Ors. relied on
2022 Nkgsb Cooperative Bank Limited v. Subir Chakravarty & Ors. referred to
2017 B. Sunitha v. The State of Telengana & Anr. referred to
2016 Yatin Narendra Oza v. Khemchand Rajaram Koshti & Ors. referred to
2014 State of Rajasthan & Anr. v. Surendra Mohnot & Ors. referred to
2013 Noor Mohammed v. Jethanand and Another referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to

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