Order

The two Contempt Petitions and the I.A. can be disposed off by this common Order. All of them deal with the question whether the action of the Bar Associations, i.e., the Delhi High Court Bar Association and the Supreme Court Bar Association, in visiting the Advocates, who refused to participate in the strike call, with punitive action of suspension and the action of the Bar Council of Delhi passing a resolution which inter alia proposes to take against lawyers who did not participate in the strike call, amounts to contempt of the Judgment of this Court in the case of Common Cause ‘A Registered Society’ vs. Union of India reported in (1995) 1 Scale 6.

2. The concerned events in these matters took place during 1999 and 2000 and since then there has been no repetition of the acts of the type alleged. Thus, apart from reiterating the well-settled legal position, we do not propose to take any further action.

3. The question of lawyers’ going on strike has been a subject matter in a number of decisions of this Court. All of them have been considered in the Judgment of a Constitution Bench of this Court in the case of Ex. Capt. Harish Uppal vs. Union of India reported in (2003) 2 SCC