Supreme Court · 1984 INSC 23 · Decided 31 January 1984
M.R. Parashar and ORS. v. DR. Farooq Abdullah and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1984 INSC 23 · [1984] 2 S.C.R. 760
- Case number
- CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 8118/1983
- Decided
- 31 January 1984
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, A.P. SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Contempt
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 15
Headnote
PARASHAR AND ORS. v. DR. FAROOQ ABDULLAH AND ORS. January 31, 1984 (Y.V. CaANDRACHUD, C.J. AND A.P. SEN, J.J Contempt of Courts Act. 1971-Publicarion in a newspaper of a/leqation of Contempt of Court by Chief Minister-Requisite Proof not furnished-No record of speech produced- Whether could be Minister of Jammu and Kashmir denounced and D ridiculed the judiciary stating that "Justice is being bought in judlci<ll Courts" and that he would never honour the Coures stay a·rders because justice could be bought with money. The news item also stated that the Chief
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