Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 832 · Decided 29 November 2010
R.S. Sujatha v. State of Karnataka and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 832 · [2010] 14 S.C.R. 227
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9579/2003
- Decided
- 29 November 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 191, 193, 197; Evidence Act Section 114
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971: s. 2(c) - Criminal contempt A B - Employee filed an OA before Tribunal for quashing the disciplinary proceedings initiated against her - Opposite party C raised issue of limitation on the ground that the employee was served charge memo at earlier stage and averment was false - Tribunal instead of deciding the case on merits or on limitation, held that the appellant was guilty of perjury, as well as of criminal contempt of the Tribunal o - Propriety of the order of Tribunal - Held: The Tribunal ought to have framed an issue on limitation and asked the parties
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