Judgment :-

Ashok Kumar Ganguly, J.

Today in open Court when Item No. 37 was called on, the petitioners appeared in person. Several ladies appeared along with a gentleman and they addressed the Court in very intemperate and offensive language. The address was more against the Members of the Bench than on the merits of the case. To say the least, this is unfortunate. The persons who appeared, became very agitated and one of them threw a footwear at the Bench. At the time the learned Solicitor General of India was present in Court and two other learned Additional Solicitors General were also present along with a large number of advocates. Ultimately, those agitated persons were actually taken out of the Court by some other Advocates and by security personnel.

To my mind this is prima facie an incident where provisions of Section 14 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (hereinafter the Act) can be invoked.

Learned Justice Pasayat called for the Registrar (Judl.) of this Court and was pleased to pass an order to the following effect:

"Today when these matters were taken up suddenly the contemnors started shouting and used very offensive, intemperate and abusive language and even one had