Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 76 · Decided 29 March 1979
Pushpaben & ANR. v. Narandas V. Badiani & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 76 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 636
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 43/1975
- Decided
- 29 March 1979
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, A.D. KOSHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act-Section 12(3)-Scope of-Sentence of inipri.ron­ ment-When should be awarded in civil contempt. Respondent No. 1 filed a complaint under s. 420 IPC against the appellants alleging that a loan taken by them from him had not been repaid. \Vhile the complaint was pending appellants undertook to repay the loan before a stipulated date. The Magistrate accordingly allowed the parties to compound the case. When the appellants failed to repay the loan in accordance with the under­ taking given before the Magistrate the respondent moved the High Court for taking
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