Supreme Court of India
Noorali Babul Thanewala v. K.M.M. Shetty and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In the foregoing circumstances, we find the first respondent guilty of committing contempt by wilful disobedience of the undertaking given by him in this Court and accordingly we convict him and sentence him to pay a fine of Rs.500 within the period of four weeks, failing which he shall suffer simple imprisonment for one month, and also direct him to deliver vacant possession of the premises forthwith to the petitioner to the extent possible by him. We further direct the District Magistrate, Thane, to evict all those who are in physical possession of the property including the 2nd respondent and his men and if necessary with police help and give vacant possession of the premises to the petitioner forthwith. However, we discharge the rule issued against the second respondent.
Judgment, pp. 568H-569
From the headnote
Contempt of Courts Act, 1961: Breach of Injunction or undertaking given to Court-Misconduct amounting to contempt-Punishment by imprisonment of fine. The Petitioner-landlord filed a suit No. 213 of 1970 for eviction against the first respondent and four others in the court of Civil Judge, Senior Division, Thane. The suit was decreed by the Trial Court. The first respondent alone filed an appeal before the District Court.…
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- 2018 Nareshkumar Badrikumar Jagad and Ors. v. O P Singh and Ors.
- 2018 National Textile Corp. Ltd. v. Nareshkumar Badrikumar Jagad.
- 2007 Rama Narang v. Ramesh Narang and Another
- 1990 Dr. (mrs.) Roshan Sam Boyce v. B.R. Cotton Mills Ltd. and Ors.
Of those, 4 referred to · 4 mentioned
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