Search Results for Tag : Disobedience

News

SC: Disobedience to be Wilful, Deliberate to Constitute Civil Contempt(20.05.2020)

Supreme Court has declined to initiate civil contempt proceedings against the Food Corporation of India, observing that the alleged disobedience was n.....

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Delhi HC: Third Party Not Absolved From Contempt If Conduct Amounts To Violation Of Court Order(19.04.2022)

Delhi High Court has ruled that disobedience of an order of the Court, if acceptable, will result in striking at the root of the rule of law on which .....

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Delhi HC: Party Alleging Contempt Can't Call Upon Court to Interpret Judicial Order(30.05.2022)

Delhi High Court observed that in a contempt jurisdiction, a party can’t be called upon the Court to interpret the judicial order differently than in .....

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Del. HC: Willful Disobedience Doesn’t Encompass Involuntarily or Negligent Actions(19.12.2023)

Delhi High Court while observing that willful disobedience in case of Contempt of Court does not encompass involuntarily or negligent actions, has hel.....

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Judgments

Contempt action ought to proceed only in respect of established wilful disobedience of the order of the Court(03.06.2021)

Present cases assail the orders issued by the Chief Engineer, pursuant to the judgment of present Court dated 15th November, 2018. This Court by the a.....

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Uttarakhand MLAs not towing party line ‘voluntarily’ gave up membership: HC(09.05.2016)

Dismissing a petition by nine Congress Members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, Nainital High Court noted that the conduct of the members had .....

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In a contempt proceeding before a contemnor is held guilty and punished, Court has to record a finding, that disobedience was wilful and intentional(19.01.2021)

The present contempt petition arises out of an unfortunate family dispute between a father on one hand and his two sons from his first wife on the oth.....

Tags : Court Order, Disobedience, Non-compliance