Contempt of Court: Disobedience should be wilful & conscious: SC

Future Coupons Private Limited Vs Amazon.Com NV Investment Holdings LLC (Supreme Court of India) The allegation of wilful disobedience being in the nature of criminal liability, the same has to be proved to the satisfaction of the court that the disobedience was not mere ‘disobedience‘ but ‘wilful‘ and ‘conscious‘. This Court in the case of Ram Kishan v. Tarun Bajaj, (2014) 16 SCC 204, considering the implication of exercise of contempt jurisdiction, held that the power must be exercised with caution rather than on mere probabilities. While delineating ...