Judgment

Nanavati, J.-The appellant has been convicted under the Contempt of Courts Act and directed to pay fine of Rs. 1,000/-. Aggrieved by his conviction and the order of payment of fine, the appellant was filed this appeal under Section 19 of the Act.

The charges framed against the appellant were as under :

“Charge-(i) : On 6.11.1982 interfered with and obstructed the due course of judicial proceedings in O.S. No. 3214 of 1982 (M/s. Ladies Corner v. Muslim Association, Bangalore and another), pending on the file of the 9th Additional City Civil Judge at Bangalore, in that, in spite of the order dated 4.11.1982 made by that court granting the possessory remedy of temporary injunction in favour of the complainant-plaintiff in respect of the premises concerned in that suit, you, in spite of that injunction order having been brought to your notice, acted in aid of the interests of the defendant in that suit and denied the com­plainant-plaintiff, by benefit of that order of temporary injunction by locking up the suit premises, putting your seal on the locks and taking away the keys and in warning the complainant-plaintiff not to enter upon the suit premises; and that

Charge-(ii) :