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Case Name : Hari Singh Nagra and others Vs Kapil Sibal and others (Supreme Court of India)
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Supreme Court of India
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The Supreme Court has taken a sagacious view of the criticism of judges while dismissing a contempt of court case against Union Minister Kapil Sibal. In fact, it encourages “fair and reasonable” criticism of judgements as judges are not “infallible”. What provoked the petition was a message the minister had written for a souvenir brought out by a group of lawyers of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1995. Some portions of the message were published in a newspaper in such a way that it gave the impression that it was contemptuous of the judiciary. The court could not have overlooked ...
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SC says rational and sobber Criticism of judiciary in national interest”- Much water has been flown on this, but fail to achieve the sense in which hon’ble SC has said it. Not because it is a case of a leading lawyer, but in general. Contrary to this, contempt of court by executive has not much strengthen the role of judicial power by judicial officers under law which results that executive enjoys much powers than the judiciary by not taking decisions at their own level. This shows mountain of cases in different courts are at peak level and to resolve these by judiciary is not a fun.
The great words of the Supreme Court of India will certainly not fall on the deaf ears of the various tribunals (like the ITAT) who still believe that these entities also enjoy the powers of a court of law as such to punish even those-who are not parties before them-for alleged and misconceived contempt of court !