Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 619 · Decided 1 May 2025
Shanmugam @ Lakshminarayanan v. High Court of Madras
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 619 · [2025] 6 S.C.R. 100
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5245/2024
- Decided
- 1 May 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 466, 468, 471
Headnote
Whether the charge of criminal contempt is proved against the appellants-contemnors beyond all reasonable doubt; whether the conviction of the appellants by the High Court for criminal contempt of Court and the sentence imposed ought to be upheld. - ss.15(1) r/w 18(1) - In Execution Petition filed by the decree holder, contemnors produced interim orders passed by the High Court staying the decree - On verification it was found that the said orders were fraudulently created by committing forgery and impersonation in the
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