Supreme Court of India

Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Md. Ongc & Ors. v. M. George Ravishekaran & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 4 S.C.R. 27

Bench P. Sathasivam, Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.

Decided 4 February 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the order dated 02.08.2006 passed in W.P. No. 21518 of 2000 stands duly implemented.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

CONTEMPT OF COURT: Contempt petition - Scope of - High Court in contempt jurisdiction directing creation of supernumerary posts - Held: c Courts must not travel beyond the four comers of the order which is alleged to have been flouted nor should it enter into questions that have not been dealt with or decided in the 0 judgment or the order violation of which is alleged - No order or direction supplemental to what has been already expressed should be issued by the court while exercising jurisdiction in the domain of the contempt law -- Courts must act with utmost restraint before compelling

Authorities it was built on

2001 Steel Authority of India Ltd. and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. National Union Water Front Workers and Ors, Etc. Etc. cited by 19
1996 Air India Statutory Corporation v. United Labour Union and Ors. cited by 10
2006 Union of India and Ors. v. Subedar Devassy Py cited by 7
2008 Bihar Finance Service H.C. Coop. Society Ltd. v. Gautam Goswami & Ors cited by 6
2002 Jhareswar Prasad Paul and Anr. v. Tarak Nath Ganguly and Ors. cited by 5

Where later benches applied it

2024 Amit Kumar Das, Joint Secretary, Baitanik, A Registered Society v. Shrimati Hutheesingh Tagore Charitable Trust relied on
2023 Snehasis Giri and Ors. v. Subhasis Mitra relied on
2019 Er. K. Arumugam v. V. Balakrishnan & Ors. relied on
2017 Avishek Raja & Ors. v. Sanjay Gupta relied on
2025 Ishwar Chanda Sharma v. Devendra Kumar Sharma & Ors. referred to
2024 Chaduranga Kanthraj Urs and Anr. v. P. Ravi Kumar and Ors. referred to
2021 V. Senthur and Another v. M. Vijayakumar, Ias,secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission and Another referred to
2021 Abhishek Kumar Singh v. G. Pattanaik & Ors. referred to
2022 Urban Infrastructure Real Estate Fund v. Dharmesh S. Jain and Anr. mentioned

Of those, 4 relied on · 4 referred to · 1 mentioned

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