Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 60 · Decided 4 February 1998
State of U.P. and ORS. v. Ashok Kumar Saxena and Anr ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 60 · [1998] 1 S.C.R. 572
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 21052/1996
- Decided
- 4 February 1998
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, M. SRINIVASAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 215, 226
Headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971: State Government's order of transfer­ On challenge, High Court's refusal to interfere with the transfer matter­ f mposition of President's rule in the State-Review of order of previous C Government-Earlier transfer order stayed-Fresh transfer order issued­ given without issuing notice to respondent No. 2-App/ication for recalling the previous order-High Court directing the Engineer-in-Chief to be present in the Court and if he evades, he should be D brought into police custody-High Court holding him "alleged contemnor" r as he
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