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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head>  <body> <div style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify"> <table width="800" border="0" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:5px;" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0">  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">   <br />   High Court of Allahabad <br /><br /> Advocates cannot condemn judges lightly<br /><br /> MANU/UP/1401/2015 - (24 Sep 2015)<br /><br />  </td>  </tr>    <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">In Re: Ajai Kumar Bhardwaj</td>  </tr>    <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#FDEDCE"><strong>In a contempt of court reference by an Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate against the Contemner for making false complaints against judicial officers, the Court sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 2,000, while also barring him from the court of the complainant magistrate for one year. It reiterated that advocates could not be “silent spectator” upon seeing a lack in judicial integrity, but the same did not give them a licence to “raise his finger over the competency and integrity” of a judicial officer, either casually or negligently.</strong></td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Relevant : Subhash Chand v. S.M. Aggrawal <manuid>MANU/DE/0359/1983</manuid>
Manik Chand Gupta v. Virendra Kumar <manuid>MANU/UP/0378/1978</manuid>
P.N. Duda v. P. Shiv Shankar and others <manuid>MANU/SC/0362/1988</manuid></strong></td>  </tr>   <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Tags : Contempt, advocate, judge, allegation</strong></td>  </tr> <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>  </tr>  <tr>      <td align="left" valign="top"><strong>Source : newsroom.manupatra.com</strong></td>  </tr> <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">Regards</td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">Team Manupatra</td>  </tr>  <tr>   <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>  </tr>   </table> </div> </body> </html>