Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 78 · Decided 18 March 1988
Bigyan Kumar & ORS. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 78 · [1988] 3 S.C.R. 280
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 591/1987
- Decided
- 18 March 1988
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971: Sections 2 and 12-0bedience to Court orders-Necessity for-On failure-Rod of justice to descend down to punish-Growing conduct of parties and public officers, in .A C particular, of ignoring Court orders-Deprecated. ' Practice and Procedure: Orders of Court-Everyone to certain directions in respect of peti· D tioner No. 9 regarding accommodation and reinstatement iit service in a writ petition filed on behalf of forty petitioners, working in Pension Paying Office, Pokhara, in Nepal, praying for directions to the Union of India, regarding their permanency
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