CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
R. N. Biswas, J
Tapan Roy – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. incident of contempt involving advocates. (Para 1) |
| 2. impact of contempt on judicial integrity. (Para 2 , 3) |
| 3. legal consequences and precedents related to contempt. (Para 4 , 5) |
| 4. final orders and implications for contemnors. (Para 6 , 7 , 8) |
1. In this case we are required to deal with a flagrant type of aggressive criminal contempt amounting to a worst form of savagery. The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ghatal on 17-12-96 rejected the prayer for confirmation of interim - bail of certain accused persons in G.R. case No. 153/93 and to take the accused persons in custody. This enraged their lawyer Shri Tapan Roy, the contemner No. 1 and other including his law clerks Shri Swapan Adhikary and Shri Somnath Chatterjee, the contemners Nos. 2 and 3 respectively so much so that they became furious, challenged the order, abused the learned SDJM in filthy languages in open Court which are unquotable, and created chaos and terror in the Court room. The contemner Tapan Roy even attempted to assault the learned SDJM by throwing articles as wooden ruler, ink pot towards him thereby causing injury on the person of GRO, and the learned SDJM for protecting himself in the ci
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