P.N. Ravindran, J.

1. The Kerala High Court Bar is excellent and exemplary - both erudite and polite - almost to a point of perfection. Yet one lawyer has tried to hold the whole system to ransom. Our efforts to make the erring counsel see reason having failed, we have undertaken this unpleasant task of holding a member of the Bar guilty of contempt. We are animated by only a single objective: The canker of contemptuous conduct should not eat into the vitals of this august institution. And, in that process, the Bar’s blemishless image should not be sullied. We will, now, see how this sordid saga has unfolded.

2. This contempt case was registered suo-motu in the wake of the events that transpired in this court on 24.10.2016, when W.P.(Crl) No.351 of 2016, a writ petition filed by Sri N.D. Balaram through Sri C.K. Mohanan, learned counsel of this court, came up for hearing at about 12.55 p.m. on 24.10.2016. The relief sought in W.P.(Crl) No.351 of 2016 filed by Sri N.D. Balaram is a writ of habeas corpus commanding respondents 1 to 4 therein to produce the body of his daughter Ms. Parvathy, aged 20 years, in this court and to hand over her custody to him.

3. By order passed on