New Delhi, May 12: Holding that people’s faith in the judicial system would be jolted severely if witnessess and accused are allowed to disrupt proceedings by unruly behaviour, the Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of a man for contempt of court.
“The offending acts of the appellant constitute contempt in the face of court. When contempt takes place in the face of the court, peoples’ faith in the administration of justice receives a severe jolt and precious judicial time is wasted.
“Therefore, the offending acts of the appellant certainly come within the ambit of interference with the due course of judicial proceedings and are a clear case of criminal contempt in the face of the Court,” a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly said in a judgement.
–Agencies