Judgment

THOMAS, J.

( 1 ) "the Contempt of Court jurisdiction is not exercised to protect the dignity of an individual judge, but to protect the administration of justice from being maligned. " While dealing with this contempt proceedings we remind ourselves of the said observation made by a Constitution Bench of this Court in Supreme Court Bar Association v. Union of India (1998) 4 SCC 409 : (1998 AIR SCW 1706 : AIR 1998 SC 1895)

( 2 ) ONE S. K. Sundaram, Advocate (hereinafter referred to as the contemnor) sent a telegraphic communication to Dr. Justice A. S. Anand the Honble Chief Justice of India on 3-11-2000. As the present proceedings are founded on the wordings of that communication we feel it necessary to extract the material portion thereof. It reads thus :"i call upon Shriman Dr. A. S. Anand Honble Chief Justice of India to step down from the Constitutional office of Chief Justice of India forthwith, failing which I will be constrained to move the criminal Court for offences under Sections 420, 406, 471, Indian Penal Code for falsification of your age, without prejudice to the right to file a writ of quo-warranto against you and for a direction to deposit a sum of Rs. 3 crore