Subhash Sharma, N. M. Popli and K. R. R. Pillai for the petitioner.
129 of the Constitution read with Section 15 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
N. Kacker and Altaf Ahmad for Respondent No.
C. Bhandare E. C. Agarwala and Mrs. Indira Sawhney for Respondent.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Contempt Petition No.
Under Art.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHANDRACHUD, C.J. This is a petition asking that the respondents be companymitted for companytempt for certain statements allegedly made by Respondent 1, who is the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Since the Chief Minister denied by that affidavit that he had made the kind of statements attributed to him, we issued a specific direction that Respondent 2, the Editor of Daily Kashmir Times, should appear in person before the Court on November 28, 1983.
That was with a view to obtaining his explanation as to how the newspaper came to publish the various statements which the Chief Minister denied he had ever made.
8118 of 1983.
In the light of that, we reverted to the companynter affidavit filed by the Chief Minister when we found that it did number traverse the allegations of the petitioners satisfactorily.
