RAJA HIMANSHU DHAR SINGH Vs. B P SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAJA Himanshu Dhar Singh of Tekari and four others presented this petition under Section 3 of the Contempt of Courts Act alleging that the 12 respondents committed contempt of Court when respondent No. 1 called the tenth annual general meeting of the Hind Provincial Plying' Club on the 31st of July, 1960 and the other eleven respondents attended this meeting and then passed a resolution against the earlier resolution passed by some of the members of this Club on the 15th of May, 1960.

(2.) I have heard the counsel for the applicants at length. He has ably presented his case before me and he has resolved my doubts on some matters. It is true that I do not agree with some of his contentions, but at the same time I want to record my appreciation of the assistance which he tried to give to the Court. Still the matter before me is not very involved. There are only two or three questions which need be determined and it is not necessary to deal with all those aspects which were placed before me by the counsel for the applicants.

(3.) IN a contempt of Court case the main questions to be decided are whether in fact a contempt was committed by the accused persons and whether under the law the Court is empowered to deal with the contempt. The arguments addressed to me by the counsel for the applicants may briefly be summarised as follows : -