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Bombay High Court Initiates Suo Motu Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Advocate. Written Material Scandalised the Court, Lowering its Dignity and Interfering with Administration of Justice, Violating Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

23 Apr 2025

This is a suo motu criminal contempt proceeding initiated by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay against Mrs. Vineeta Srinandan. The court took cog...

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Supreme Court Convicts Contemnors for Scandalous Allegations Against Judges in Suo Motu Contempt Proceedings. The Court upheld its inherent power under Article 129 to punish for contempt, rejecting procedural objections under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

27 Apr 2020

The Supreme Court of India initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against Vijay Kurle, Rashid Khan Pathan, and Nilesh Ojha for sending letters contai...

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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.

12 Mar 2019

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 ...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Contempt Petition Against Shareholders for Alleged Scandalous Allegations in Legal Proceedings. Filing of false cases does not constitute criminal contempt unless it scandalizes the court or impedes administration of justice under Section 2(c) of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

31 Jan 2019

The petitioner, Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC), filed a contempt petition against respondent shareholders Sureshchandra V. Par...

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Bombay High Court on its Own Motion Proceeds Against Individual for Scandalous Facebook Posts Targeting Judges. Court Stresses That Such Vicious Attacks on Judiciary Constitute Gross Criminal Contempt Undermining Rule of Law.

11 Oct 2018

Suo-motu criminal contempt proceedings were initiated by the Bombay High Court against an individual who, through his Facebook profile, published a se...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Criminal Contempt Petition Against Advocate for Alleged Misconduct in Execution Proceedings — No Prima Facie Case of Contempt Made Out. Court Held That Filing of Applications and Alleged Misstatements by Advocate Did Not Constitute Willful Disobedience or Scandalizing the Court Under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

24 Sep 2018

The present reference was made by Miss Huma A. Ansari, the then 3rd Joint Civil Judge Junior Division and J.M.F.C., Aurangabad (the Presiding Officer)...

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Bombay High Court Convicts Advocate for Criminal Contempt for Disrupting Court Proceedings and Threatening Judge. Advocate's conduct of shouting, snatching notebook, and threatening judge amounts to criminal contempt under Section 2(c) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

31 Aug 2018

The present criminal contempt petition was filed by Ashok Govindrao Bilolikar, the II Adhoc Additional District and Sessions Judge at Parbhani, under ...

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High Court of Karnataka Initiates Suo-Motu Criminal Contempt Proceedings in ISKCON Property Dispute – Judge's Integrity Questioned via Anonymous Letter. Court Holds that Sending Photographs with Inflammatory Captions Amounts to Blackmail and Scandalizing the Court, Prima Facie Contempt Under Section 2(c) of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

16 Apr 2015

The High Court of Karnataka initiated suo-motu criminal contempt proceedings against certain individuals associated with ISKCON and advocates, arising...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Criminal Contempt Petition for Non-Compliance with Court Order in Property Dispute. Court holds that willful disobedience of an interim order must be proved beyond reasonable doubt and mere filing of a caveat does not constitute contempt.

1 Dec 2014

The petitioner, Anita Purushottam Hiranandani, filed a criminal contempt petition against her brother-in-law, Respondent No.1 Dwarka Revchand Hiranand...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Recusal Plea in Habeas Corpus Challenge to Contempt Detention; Holds Embarrassment and Alleged Error Insufficient for Judicial Withdrawal. Non-compliance of court's directions in contempt proceedings led to detention under Articles 129 and 142, and the bench ruled that allegations of bias were unfounded and did not necessitate recusal.

1 Jan 1970

The Supreme Court was seized of a criminal writ petition filed by Subrata Roy Sahara challenging an order dated 04.03.2014 passed by the same bench in...

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