Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 805 · Decided 6 September 2023
Balwantbhai Somabhai Bhandari v. Hiralal Somabhai Contractor (Deceased) REP. BY LRS. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 805 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 1064
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4955/2022
- Decided
- 6 September 2023
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Transfer of Property Act Section 52
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issues for consideration: Whether the wilful breach of an assurance in the form of an undertaking given by a counsel/ advocate on behalf of his client to the court would amount to "civil contempt" as defi ned u/s. 2(b) of the Contempt of Court Act, 1971; whether the said to have been given to the court; whether the contempt court has the power to declare any contemptuous transaction non est or void; whether the benefi ciaries of a contemptuous transaction have a right to be heard in the contempt proceedings on the ground that they are necessary or proper
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