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2024 Supreme(SC) 47

VIKRAM NATH, RAJESH BINDAL
Kusha Duruka – Appellant
Versus
State of Odisha – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr. Balaram Nayak, Adv. Mr. Chaitanya Chauhan, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

RAJESH BINDAL, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. This is another case in which an effort has been made to pollute the stream of administration of justice.

3. About three decades ago, this Court in Chandra Shashi vs. Anil Kumar Verma, (1995) 1 SCC 421 was faced with a situation where an attempt was made to deceive the Court and interfere with the administration of justice. The litigant was held to be guilty of contempt of court. It was a case in which husband had filed fabricated document to oppose the prayer of his wife seeking transfer of matrimonial proceedings. Finding him guilty of contempt of court, he was sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment by this Court. This Court observed as under:

    “1. The stream of administration of justice has to remain unpolluted so that purity of court's atmosphere may give vitality to all the organs of the State. Polluters of judicial firmament are, therefore, required to be well taken care of to maintain the sublimity of court's environment; so also to enable it to administer justice fairly and to the satisfaction of all concerned.

    2. Anyone who take

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