Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Section 20 -- Limitation - Provision merely provides for limitation to initiate the proceedings and not for the conclusion of contempt proceedings...........
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Section 19(1)(b), 2(c) -- Election petition - Transfer application - Allegations made against the Judges - Ex facie contumacious and scurrilous attack intended to scandilise the Court - Initiation of contempt proceedings against appellant - Justified - Award of imprisonment for a period of three months - Upheld...........
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 -- Contempt jurisdiction is not to be invoked or allowed to be revoked to enable appellant to wreck personal vengeance against alleged contemnors - Appellate Court will not interfere unless the order is totally perverse - Appeal dismissed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 124A -- Sedition - Decisive ingredient of offence is doing of certain acts which would bring the Government established by law in India into hatred to contempt etc. - Appellant alleged to have spread communal hatred among Muslim youth and exhorted them to undergo training in armed militancy - Nothing against appellant that he did anything..........
Arrest or detention -- Requirements as laid down in D.K.Basu's case reported in 1997(1) Apex Court Journal 158 (S.C.) - Failure to comply - Would render the Officer liable for departmental action and punishment for contempt of Court - Proceedings for contempt of Court can be instituted in any High Court of the country, having territorial jurisdiction over the matter...........
Agreement to sell -- Suit for specific performance - Defendant alleging himself to be illiterate - Defendant singing agreement to sell and plaintiff putting his thumb impression - It shows that defendant is not illiterate - Defendant in his written statement denied execution of sale deed and subsequently by amendment of written statement got incorporated the vague plea of..........
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Section 2(b), 12 -- When an order is passed by the Court in presence of counsel for the parties, no further communication is required to be sent by the other party intimating about the order passed by the Court - Order of injunction passed restraining Municipal Corporation from demolishing suit premises in presence of its counsel and order was..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 27 -- Implementation of order - Respondent authority found to have misinterpreted the order - Acted bona fidely - No contempt made out...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(o) -- Consumer - Effort of the complainant is to hold a fishing enquiry to find out the defaulting/erring official of the High Court who had not despatched notice/summon in some case pending in the High Court - It is not the function of the fora established under the Act to go into such matters for the ulterior motive of helping..........
Excise contracts -- Writ jurisdiction of High Court - High Court Judge not keeping in view the norms governing the exercise of writ jurisdiction - Orders passed by Single Judge are set aside and writ dismissed - Held, violation of undertaking amounts to contempt of Court and Court must try to repair the damage -High Court to initiate appropriate proceedings for enforcing..........
