( 1 ) THESE contempt of Court proceedings have been initiated against Shri purushottam Kaushik, Secretary. 'samyukta Socialist Party'. Madhya Pradesh, Shri narayanan, Editor of Madhya Pradesh Chronicle, a daily newspaper published from bhopal and Shri Vinod Maheshwari, printer and publisher of the said newspaper, in respect of a statement contained in an account of a Press Conference held by kaushik on 20th May 1966, which was published in the issue dated Bhopal the 22nd May 1966 of the Madhya Pradesh Chronicle: the report of the Press Conference, so far as it is material here, appeared thus:

"the Slate Samyukta Socialist Party has threatened to boycott the Pande commission on Bastar firing in case the Party's demands for ensuring confidence of the people in the Commission were not conceded. Mr. Purshottam Kaushik, Secretary, S. S. P. told reporters this morning that a decision to this effect was likely to be taken at the Executive meeting of the S. S. P. to be held at Bhopal in next month.

The demands of the Party are immediate transfer of the local officials responsible for the Bastar firing, enlargement of the Probe Commission by three Judges to be headed by a Suprem