( 1 ) ORDER :- Through this petition, filed on 26/08/1996, the petitioner prays to issue show cause notices to Respondents Nos. 1 to 15 Sri Vayalar Ravi, Sri John. F. Fernandes, Smt. Jayanti Natrajan, Sri S. S. Ahluwalia, Sri S. M. Krishna, Sri Ish Dutt Yadav, Sri Gurudas Das Gupta, Sri M. A. Baby, Mrs. Najma Heptulla, Sri Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, Sri Santosh Mohan Dev, Sri Basudev Acharya, Sri Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee, Sri P. A. Sangama and Sri Surinder Kumar Singla for having criticised on the floor of the Parliament on July 25, 26 and 30, 1996 two of the Honble Judges of this Court, who on 24-7-1996 had issued notices in her Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 19386 of 1996 questioning the validity of the appointment of Respondent No. 16 Sri H. D. Deve Gowda as the Prime Minister of the country and had advised him not to appear before this Court and who did not appear before this Court and punish them for committal of contempt of this Court under Article 215 of the Constitution of India.

( 2 ) RECORDS of her writ petition discloses that it was heard on the question of its admission by a Division Bench comprising B. M. Lal, J. (who since 9/07/1997 is the Chief Justice of Patna High Cour

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