Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 480 · Decided 30 June 2016
Maheshwar Peri & Others v. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Through Registrar General
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 480 · [2016] 3 S.C.R. 213
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 549/2016
- Decided
- 30 June 2016
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, R.F. NARIMAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 129, 215
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 - s. 20 - Suo motu initiation of contempt proceedings - Period of limitation - Publication of article authored by the third appellant in a magazine wherein names of iudges allegedly involved in the case incorporated - Application by Court for initiating contempt proceedings on its own motion since the article caused insult to the higher judiciary - Petition placed before the Single Judge and thereafter, the Chief Justice - Four years later matter listed before the Division Bench of the High Court - High Court initiated suo
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