Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 277 · Decided 9 October 1987
Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 277 · [1988] 1 S.C.R. 441
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 849/1987
- Decided
- 9 October 1987
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, K.N. SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
13 Contempt of Court Act, 1971: s.15-Writ Petition by way of public interest litigation-Couched in unsavoury language with a designed attempt to lower the prestige of the Court-Petitioner issued show cause for contempt of Court. f-- The petitioner, an advocate, filed the application by way of a based on Western Common Law and Ameri· can techniques; that the Court had become a constitotioual liability without having control over the illegal acts of Government, and that the c Court was sleeping over the issues. D Dismissing the writ petition, HELD: The petitioner is prima
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