Bhaskar Bhattacharya, J.

1. ALL these suo motu Rules of Criminal Contempt issued by a Division Bench of this Court presided over by the then Chief Justice were heard analogously as the points involved in these Rules are substantially the same.

2. THE facts giving rise to issue of these sua motu Rules of criminal contempt and the subsequent proceedings till the matters appeared before this Bench may be summarised thus:

1) Four different applications for criminal contempt were filed before the Division Bench presided over by the then Chief Justice of this Court drawing attention of the Bench to the statements alleged to have been made by the three respondents in a meeting held in Kolkata on November 17, 2007 which were published in different newspapers as news-items alleging that those statements made by the respondents in the said meeting amounted to Criminal contempt within the meaning of section 2(c) of the Contempt of Court Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and only the petitioners in one of these four matters (C.P.A.N. 1246 of 2007) prayed for taking suo motu action in terms of section 15 of the Act read with Article 215 of the Constitution of India. Those ap