BAHADUR SINGH Vs. CHIEF ENGINEER IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS D. B. Civil Special Appeal No. 28 of 1992 has been filed against the order dated July 10, 1992, by which , the contempt petition filed by the appellant was dismissed.

(2.) MR. U. N. Bhandari, learned counsel, raised a preliminary objection to the effect that no appeal lies against the order, by which, the petition for contempt has been dismissed. It is submitted that since the contempt petition filed by the appellant was dismissed by the learned Single Judge, he had no right of appeal under Section 19 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (for brevity, 'the Act, 1971'), as this right is only available to a person, who has been punished for having committed contempt of the order of the Court.