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PETITIONER: SUKHDEV SINGH SODHI
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND JUDGESOF THE PEPSU HIGH COURT.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 25/11/1953
BENCH: BOSE, VIVIAN BENCH: BOSE, VIVIAN MUKHERJEA, B.K. BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H.
CITATION: 1954 AIR 186 1954 SCR 454 CITATOR INFO : R 1963 SC 692 (16) R 1971 SC1132 (83) R 1972 SC 858 (5) RF 1991 SC2176 (1-1 13,21,25) R 1992 SC 904 (15,18,19,22,37,40)
ACT: Contempt of court-Contempt of Judges of High Court-Power of Supreme Court to transfer proceedings to another High Court - Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, ss. 1(2), 527- Constitution of India, art. 215-Contempt of Courts Act, 1952, s. 3.
HEADNOTE: The Supreme Court has no power under section 527 of the Criminal Procedure Code or under any other provision of law to transfer from a High Court,. proceedings which that High Court has initiated for contempt of itself, to another High Court. Section 527 of the Criminal Procedure Code does not apply to such a case as the power of a High Court to institute proceedings for contempt of itself and to punish the contemner where necessary, is a special jurisdiction which is inherent in all courts of record and section 1 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code excludes such special jurisdictions ’from its scope. It-is desirable, on general principles of justice, that a judge who...