Supreme Court · 1952 INSC 6 · Decided 14 February 1952
Bathina Ramakrishna Reddy v. The State of MADRAS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1952 INSC 6 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 425
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 13/1951
- Decided
- 14 February 1952
- Bench
- M. PATANJALI SASTRI, MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, N. CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 499
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 425 BATHINA RAMAKRISHNA REDDY v. THE STATE OF MADRAS. [PATANJALI SASTRI c. J., MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, Muui:ERJEA, DAs and CHANDRASEKHARA AIYAR· JJ.] Contempt of Courts Act (XII of 1926), s. 2(3)-lndian Penal Code (XLV of 1860), s. 499-Contempt of subordinate 2 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1926, excludes the jurisdiction of the High Court to take cognisance of a contempt alleged to have been committed in respect of a Court subordinate to it only in cases where the acts alleged to consti- tute contempt are punishable as contempt under specific
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