Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 93 · Decided 14 March 1961
Dibakah Satpathy v. Honble the Chief Justice and Judges of the High Court of Orissa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 93 · [1962] 1 S.C.R. 326
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2/1960
- Decided
- 14 March 1961
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, RAGHUBAR DAYAL, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
COURT REPORTS [1962] DIBAKAH SATPATHY v. HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND JUDGES OF THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA (K. SUBBA RAO, BAGHUBAR DAYAL and J. R. MuDHOLKAR, JJ.) Contempt of Court-Circular directing magistrates to ignore decision of High Court-If amounts to contempt. The appellant, an Under contrary to that indicated by the High Court, be followed "until the matter is carried to the High Court in some case, so that the confusion created by the Orissa High Court decision A.LR. 1951 Orissa 40 might be set at rest". Held, that the appellant was clearly guilty of contempt
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