Supreme Court on Suspension of Medical License for Contempt of Court LEGAL ISSUE: Whether a court can suspend a medical practitioner’s license to practice medicine as a punishment for contempt of court. CASE TYPE: Contempt of Court Case Name: Gostho Behari Das vs. Dipak Kumar Sanyal & Ors. Judgment Date: 28 July 2023 Date of […]
Supreme Court Dismisses Contempt Petition in Family Business Dispute: Rama Narang vs. Ramesh Narang (2021) LEGAL ISSUE: Whether the respondents’ actions constituted contempt of court for violating a prior consent order, despite subsequent orders from the Company Law Board (CLB). CASE TYPE: Contempt of Court, Family Business Dispute Case Name: Rama Narang vs. Ramesh Narang
Supreme Court Holds Directors Guilty of Contempt for Violating Orders in Daiichi Sankyo Case Date of the Judgment: 15 November 2019 Citation: 2019 INSC 1137 Judges: Ranjan Gogoi, CJI, Deepak Gupta, J., Sanjiv Khanna, J. Can repeated assurances and undertakings given to a court be disregarded with impunity? The Supreme Court of India addressed this
Supreme Court overturns contempt conviction for false affidavit: R.S. Sehrawat vs. Rajeev Malhotra (2018) LEGAL ISSUE: Whether a contempt conviction for filing a false affidavit can be sustained when the affidavit is supported by contemporaneous official records and without a specific charge being framed. CASE TYPE: Contempt of Court/Criminal Case Name: R.S. Sehrawat vs. Rajeev
Date of the Judgment: 20 July 2017 Citation: Not Available Judges: Kurian Joseph, J., R. Banumathi, J. Can an investigating officer be held in contempt of court for arresting an individual after a new charge is added, even if that individual had previously been granted interim bail? The Supreme Court of India addressed this question
