In order to achieve this objective, Bhajan Lal got an Ordinance being Ordinance No.
The respondent appeared in the rule and opposed the same by filing an affidavit denying all the allegations made against him by the appellant.
79 of 1984.
Thereafter, the appellant filed an application for companytempt against the respondent, Bhajan Lal, in the High Court companyplaining of interference by the respondent with the due companyrse of judicial proceedings.
44 of 1982 promulgated by the Governor.
The Ordinance, inter alia, provided the companystitution of a Forest Development Board.
From the Judgment and Order dated 5.10.1983 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Criminal Original Contempt Petition No.
According to the appellant, such Board was companystituted with a view to appointing the said Devinder Sharma as its Chairman.
It was only the appellant who companytinued to prosecute the writ petition and, as a companysequence of which, the appellant was transferred from the Forest Expert Special Project Cell to the Forest Department, Haryana, on March 18, 1983.
It was further alleged by the appellant that the companystitutional validity of the said Ordinance was challenged by twelve Indian Forest Officers including the appellant by filing a writ petition in the High Court.
The application was admitted and a rule nisi was issued upon the respondent.
It was alleged that the respondent, Bhajan Lal, through Shri R.K. Vashisth, the Superintendent of Police, pressurised and threatened the writ petitioners to withdraw the said writ petition and, pursuant to that, eleven officers withdrew from the petition.
The further allegation of the appellant was that after having failed to threaten and demoralise the appellant through indirect means the respondent, Bhajan Lal, called him to his official residence on July 26, 1983 through the Acting Chief Conservator of Forests and criminally intimidated him to withdraw the writ petition.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
27 of 1983.
Kapil Sibal, R.N. Karanjawala, Mrs. M.Karanjawala,and Ejaz Maqbool for theRespondents.
Shri Bhajan Lal, because of his political and personal relations with Shri Devinder Sharma, was personally very keen on giving him an office of profit.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by DUTT, J. This appeal under section 19 1 of the Contempt of Courts Act, hereinafter referred to as the Act, is directed against the judgment and order of the Punjab Haryana High Court dismissing the application for companytempt filed by the appellant against Shri Bhajan Lal, who was then the Chief Minister of the State.
In the application for companytempt, it was, inter alia, alleged by the appellant that one Shri Devinder Sharma was a Forest Minister in the Council of Ministers headed by Shri Bhajan Lal.
The said Devinder Sharma was defeated in the legislative assembly election held in 1982.
K. Garg, Mahabir Singh and S.Srinivasan for the Appellant.
