( 1 ) THIS appeal is directed against the Contempt Rule issued by learned single Judge of this Court. The appellant is the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Calcutta. Before issuing the Contempt Rule, the learned single Judge also issued a show cause notice. The circumstances under which the said notice to show cause before issuing contempt Rule was issued as appears from the said notice is set out hereinunder :"this is to record that sometime back in the last part of February this year between 16-2-1996 and 23-2-1996, Shri Asit Kumar Dasgupta, a member of the West Bengal Higher Judicial Service, posted as Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Calcutta while talking to me over phone at my chamber in a most objectionable, intemperate, annoying and insulting language criticised the move of the High Court and the order of the present Chief Justice calling for copies of judgments delivered by him and few other members of the service for considering their eligibility for granting extension of service beyond 58 years. He asked me to see that copies of judgments were not called for and to tell the Chief Justice that he should not take the matter as in the domain of his fath