Supreme Court Convicts Advocate for Contempt of Court for Browbeating Judges and Making Baseless Allegations. The court held that the advocate's conduct of alleging that judges designate only relatives as Senior Advocates and making statements that lawyers are immune from contempt constitutes criminal contempt under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971....
The Supreme Court of India, in a writ petition filed by the National Lawyers Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms and others, took suo motu cognizance of contemptuous conduct by the petition...
