Binod Kumar Roy and Dharmpal Sinha JJ.

1. As a Staff of this Court had nullified our judicial directions made repeatedly, we initiated these proceedings in Contempt invoking Article 215 of the Constitution of India, remembering that Halsbury in Laws of England, Third edition--Volume 8, defined--Any act done or writing published which is calculated to bring a court a Judge into Contempt or to lower his authority or to interfere with the due course of justice or the lawful process of the Court is a Contempt of Courts (quoted with approval in Thakur Jugal Kishore V/s. Sitamarhi C. C. Bank Ltd. -- ).

2. After the proclamation made by the Governor-General of India on 22-3-1912 constituting a separate province called Provinces of Bihar and Orissa governed by Governor-General-in-Council, pursuant to Sec. 113 of the Government of India Act, 1915 read with clause 1 of the Letters Patent, the High Court of Judicature at Patna i. e, to say this Court was erected ard established in 1916.

3. Sec. 108 (1) of the Government of India Act, 1915 runs as follows:

Each High Court may be its own rules provide, as it thinks fit, for the exercise, by one or more Judges, or by division courts cons