Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 136 · Decided 4 May 1988
D.N. Taneja v. Bhajan Lal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 136 · [1988] 3 S.C.R. 888
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 79/1984
- Decided
- 4 May 1988
- Bench
- R.S. PATHAK, M.M. DUTT, M.H. KANIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 215, 136
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971-Section 19( 1)-Interpretation of-When can High Court be said to exercise its jurisdiction to punish for its contempt--High Court exercises this jurisdiction only when it imposes punishment for contempt-If no punishment is imposed on contemnor, no jurisdiction to punish appeal is only of the contemnor and not of the person who alleges that the contemnor had committed contempt of the Court­ Remedy of the person alleging contempt lies under Article 136 of the D Constitution. E F Rule of Interpretation-Right of appeal is a creature of statute and should be
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