JUDGMENT

Gokal Chand Mittal, CJ. : [for himself and on behalf of Malik Sharief-Ud-Din, C.L. Chaudhury, P.N. Nag, V.B. Bansal, R.L. Gupta, Usha Mehra, S.C. Jain, J.K. Mehra, Sat Pal, D.K. Jain, & Mohd. Shamim, JJ.]

1. On 26th September, 1991 at about 10.30 A.M. the contemners S/Shri B.D. Kaushik, Rajinder Kumar Sharma, Rajiv .Khosla, Jugal Wadhwa, R.N. Vats, Jatan Singh and P.S. Rathee, Advocates aided and abetted by others, in large number, stoned the various court rooms when Judges of this Court were discharging their judicial functions. They individually and collectively stood on the chairs, tables and the and of the Court Masters and acted in a menacing manner, shouted abuses and slogans such as CHIEF JUSTICE AND JUDGES HAI HAI, MURDABAD. They also prevented various lawyers from discharging their judicial functions as Officers of the Court and also stopped the litigants from conducting their cases in the Court. They even prevented some of the lawyers from entering the court premises and the court rooms in a threatening tone they also shouted at the Judges saying, "STOP THE WORK, WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE COURTS TO FUNCTION AND YOU SHOULD RETIRE TO YOUR CHAMBERS".

They also insisted