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2007 Supreme(J&K) 282

NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, Y.P.NARGOTRA
Mirza Saleem Ahmad Beig – Appellant
Versus
State – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Advocate For Appellant: Z.A. Shah
Advocate For Respondent: R.S. Thakur
Advocate For Respondent: B.S. Salathia

Per Kakru, ACJ:

1. Violation of the judicial orders is not a disrespect to the person but to the system as a whole and if allowed to go unchecked erosion of the faith of the people in the rule of law is the fall out, therefore, the High Court cannot afford to maintain dead silence but has to deal with the contumacious approach and act of the authority howsoever high he/she or they may be and the measures to restore the majesty of law becomes a necessity as has been done by the learned Single Judge by taking suo moto cognizance in a writ petition filed by one of the contemnors herein seeking quashing of warrants issued by the learned Sessions Judge Poonch because of failure to appear in pursuance of summons besides the notice requiring the contemnors to show cause, if any, against initiation of contempt proceedings in a Robkar arising out of the refusal by one Shri Saleem Ahmad Beig, the then Superintendent, Central Jail, Jammu to comply with the direction of the learned Sessions Judge requiring him to admit the accused in the Central Jail Jammu followed by a false statement that the accused was not brought to the jail. Amazingly the Director General Prisons Shri M. K. Mohanty when c






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