Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 146 · Decided 31 July 1970
E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad v. T. Narayanan Nambiar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 146 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 697
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 56/1968
- Decided
- 31 July 1970
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, G.K. MITTER, A.N. RAY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)
Headnote
Contempt of Court-What is-Chief Minister of State making re111ark.1 in public derogatory of the Judiciary and courts--Sought to justify making them in terms of his political ideology based on the teachings of Marx am/ Engels--Jf guilty of contempt-Constitution of India, Art. 19(1) and (2)-Scope of The appellant, who was the Chief Minister of Kerala at the time. at a press conference held by him on November 9, 1967, made various criti· cal remarks relating to the judiciary referring to it inter alia as "an instru­ ment of oppression" and the Judges as "dominated
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