Supreme Court of India
Ram Niranjan Roy v. State of Bihar and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the High Court cannot be faulted for punishing the appellant for contempt of court.
Judgment, page 19
From the headnote
CONTEMPT OF COURTS ACT, 1971: s. 14 - Contempt of court - Contemner appearing-in person before High Court and shouting at court and making false statement before court - High Court holding him guilty c of contempt of court and directing him to be taken into custody and to be sent to jail for 24 hours as punishment - Held: The 0 intemperate language used by the appellant while addressing the Judges of the High Court is most objectionable and contumacious - He did not show any remorse - He did not tender any apology, but, continued his rude behaviour of shouting at the court and baiting the
Authorities it was built on
- 2006 Prakash Singh and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1994 Chandra Shashi v. Anil Kumar Verma
- 1995 In Re: Vinay Chandra Mishra (the Alleged Contemner) v. In Re : Vinay Chandra Mishra (the Alleged Contemner)
- 2009 Leila David v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- 2010 Ranveer Yadav v. State of Bihar
- 2001 In Re: Bineet Kumar Singh v. -
Where later benches applied it
- 2019 National Lawyers Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
Of those, 1 referred to
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