Hon’ble Ashok Bhushan, J.—Heard Sri T.P. Singh, Senior Advocate, assisted by Sri Siddharth Nandan for the petitioner and Sri M.C. Chaturvedi, learned Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the State-respondents No. 1 to 4.

2. Affidavits have been exchanged between the parties and with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the writ petition is being finally decided.

3. Facts giving rise to this writ petition are; petitioner’s son S.K. Awasthi, Advocate was charged with criminal contempt by a Division Bench of this Court being Criminal Contempt No. 19 of 2007. The Division Bench vide order dated 21st November, 2007 charged S.K. Awasthi with criminal contempt and directed the contemner to be taken into custody. The Division Bench to which the criminal contempt was assigned by judgment and order dated 23rd November, 2007 punished the contemner with imprisonment for a period of one month. However, on the intervention of the members of the Bar that contemner would improve, the punishment was suspended to afford an opportunity to the contemner to improve his conduct, subject to the condition that in case he misbehaves in the Court again, mere issuance of show cause notic