JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Contempt Petition is filed under Section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act, to initiate contempt proceedings against the contemnor and punish her for willfully disobeying the order passed in Hon''ble Apex Court in Crl. Appeal No.1277 of 2014 on 02.07.2014.)

L. Victoria Gowri, J.

Prelude:

When the State of Tamil Nadu is celebrating the State Police Women''s Wing’s Golden Jubilee in this year of 2023, it is an irony that a contempt case has been initiated against the Inspector of Police of the All Women Police Station at Thilagar Thidal Police Station, Madurai city before this Court. Since 1973, when the first batch of the Women’s Wing of Tamil Nadu State Police comprising one Sub Inspector and 20 otherpersonnel were inducted into the Tamil Nadu Police Force, for the past more than 30 years the State Police''s Women’s Wing has come a long way. The novel idea of “All Women Police Station” was first introduced in this State in the year 1992 by the then Chief Minister with the greatest vision of commencing a full fledged mission to look into the nuances of the safety and security of women by the women themselves in the State. The first of its kind was established in the Thou