Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1190 · Decided 21 October 2009
Leila David v. State of Maharashtra & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1190 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 317
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 22040/2008
- Decided
- 21 October 2009
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, G.S. SINGHVI, H.L. DATTU (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 129, 142, 32
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 129 and 142 - Contempt in the face of the c Supreme Court - During the course of hearing, writ petitioners disrupting court proceedings, using offensive, intemperate and abusive language - One of the petitioners throwing an object at Judges - the behaviour of -1 petitioners as contemptuous, held them guilty of criminal D contempt of the Court and sentenced them to three months' imprisonment - The other Judge comprising the Bench being of the view that petitioners could not have been punished for contempt without due compliance of s.14
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