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PETITIONER: STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH
Vs.
RESPONDENT: REVASHANKAR
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 24/09/1958
BENCH: DAS, S.K. BENCH: DAS, S.K. IMAM, SYED JAFFER KAPUR, J.L.
CITATION: 1959 AIR 102 1959 SCR Supl. (1)1367 CITATOR INFO : RF 1971 SC 221 (16) R 1972 SC 905 (8) R 1972 SC 989 (9,10) R 1974 SC 710 (85)
ACT: Contempt of Court-Ouster of High Court’s jurisdiction-Test -Contempt of Courts Act, 1952 (XXXII Of 1952), s. 3(2)- Indian Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860), S. 228.
HEADNOTE: The respondent, who had filed a complaint in respect of an alleged offence under s. 500 of the Indian Penal Code in the Court of the Additional District Magistrate of Indore, made a number of aspersions against the Magistrate in an application I74 1368 made to him under s. 528 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, two of which were of a serious character. It was alleged that the Magistrate was a party to a conspiracy with certain others the object of which was two implicate the complainant in a false case of theft and that a lawyer appearing for the accused persons, to whom the Magistrate was favourably inclined, had declared that he had paid a sum of Rs. 500 to the Magistrate. Those allegations were later on repeated in an affidavit. The Magistrate reported the matter to the Registrar of the High Court for necessary action. The High Court called...