SUPREME COURT REPORTS

[2018] 1 S.C.R.

AJAYINDER SANGWAN AND ORS.

K. K. MOHAN

(Contempt Petition (C) No. 565 of 2018)

(Transferred Case (Civil) No. 126 of 2015)

FEBRUARY 05, 2018

[R. K. AGRAWAL AND ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, JJ.]

Advocates - State Bar Councils - Elections - Application seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Bar Council of India (BCI) for alleged willful disobedience of orders passed by Supreme Court - Held: BCI has finalized the schedule for election in respective State Bar Councils - Election schedule as finalized is just and proper - No case is made out to initiate contempt proceeding against BCI - Contempt petition is dismissed - Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 565 of 2018 in Transferred Case (Civil) No. 126 of 2015.

Under Article 32 of The Constitution of India.

Vikramjeet Banerjee, Rajiv Dutta, Manan Kumar Misra, Mahabir Singh, V. S. Giri, Sr. Advs, Ramesh Babu M. R., Anantha Narayana M.G., Gaurav Agarwal, S. Moh. Haneef, Piyush Choudhary, Satya Mitra, J. S. Rawat, Ghanshyam Joshi, Ms. Pratibha Jain, Tanuj Agarwal (For M/S. Parekh & Co.), Ajainder Sangwan, Vivek Narayan Sharma, Siddharth Mahajan, Raj Kumar Sharma, S. N. Sharma, S. K. Sharma, Deepak Sehrawat, Tarunesh Kumar, Arun Rathi, C. P. Singh, Sanjay Singh, Shubham Awasthi, Ms. Sweety Chattopadhyay, Rohan Sharma, Ms. Rishina Parashar, Irfan Firdous, Kunal Chopra, Anirudh Kumar, V. P. Singh, Narendra Singh, Dhan Singh, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Sriram P., Ms. Khushbu Jain, Vishnu Shankar M.S., Ms. Athira G.Nair, Ankur S. Kulkarni, Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, Nirmal Kumar Ambastha, Namit Saxena, Ms. Anjul Dwivedi, Ms. Gunwant Dara, Rajesh Ranjan, M. K .Maroria, Mrs. Sarla Chandra, Sachin Patil, Praveen Agrawal, Gagan Gupta, H. Chandra Sekhar,


Ashwani Kumar Dubey, Sanjeev Kr. Baliyan, Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Ms. Dharita Malkan, Ms. Deepa Gorasia, Bhaskar Singh, Ms. Madhusmita Bora, Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, Mrs. Nandini Gore, Parmanand Pandey, Sudarshan Singh Rawat, Ms. Poli Kataki, R. Balasubramanian, Gaurav Sharma, Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Dhawal Mohan, Prateek Bhatia, Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Ms. K. V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, M. Shoeb Alam, Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Ujjwal Singh, Mojahid Karim Khan, Mohinder Jit Singh, Prang Newmai, Ms. Slomita Rai, E. C. Agrawala, Himinder Lal, Shibashish Misra, Mritunjay Kumar Sinha, Subhasish Mohanty, Mohammed Sadique T.A., Amol B. Karande, Vijay Kumar, Gopal Prasad, Anupam Lal Das, M/S. Venkat Palwai Law Associates, Ms. Sneha Kalita, Vikas Upadhyay, Vidit Monga, Ms. Aparna Jha, Dr. Kailash Chand, Jogy Scaria, Ms. Beena Victor, Rakesh K. Sharma, S. S. Shamshery, Amit Sharma, Ankit Raj, Ms. Indira Bhakar, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Vipin Kumar, Baldev Atreya, Deepak Goel, Kamal Kumar Pandey, Aditya Singh, Pijush K. Roy, Ms. Kakali Roy, Rajan K. Chourasia, Ms. Lalita Kohli, Abhishek Swarup (For M/S. Manoj Swarup and Co.), Dr. Manish Singhvi, Shailja Nanda Mishra, Satyendra Kumar (For Irshad Ahmad), Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, Ms. Radhika Chaturvedi, Hitesh Kumar Sharma, S. K. Rajora (For Ms. Manju Jetley), Mrs. Santosh Singh, Ms. Malini Poduval, Anurag Dubey, Ajit Kumar Pathak, Sanchit Maheshwari, S. R. Setia, Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal, Y. Raja Gopala Rao, Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Rajeev Singh, Anjani Kumar Mishra, Ms. Christi Jain, Harvinder Chowdhury, M/S. Lemax Lawyers & Co., Vishal Khattar, Ms. C. Rubavathi, M. A. Chinnasamy, K. Ethiraj, P. V. Dinesh, A. V. Rangam, Buddy A. Ranganadhan, Sunil Fernandes, Ms. Nupur Kumar, Harsh V. Surana, Gaurav Agarwal, Kunal Singh, Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Ms. Rahat Sharma, Shishir Pinaki, Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Sumi P. S., Vibhakar Mishra, K. K. Gautam, Umesh P. Wadhwani, Deependra Kumar Pathak, Nischal Kumar Neeraj, Suvendu Suvasis Dash, K. V. Mohan, Atul Jha, Sandeep Jha, Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Advs. with them for the appearing parties.

The Order of the Court was delivered by

R. K. AGRAWAL, J. 1. This petition has been filed by the present applicants seeking initiation of proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act 1971, for alleged willful disobedience of this Court's order dated 14.12.2017 along with orders dated 23.08.2017 and 24.11.2017 passed in Transferred Case (C) No. 126 of 2015.

AJAYINDER SANGWAN AND ORS. v. K. K. MOHAN


2. In the application for directions filed on behalf of the Bar Council of India (BCI) on 23.01.2018, we find that the BCI has finalized the schedule for election in respective State Bar Councils. Further, we are of the opinion that the election schedule as finalized by the BCI is just and proper.

3. In view of the above, we are of the considered opinion that no case has been made out to initiate contempt proceeding against the BCI.

The contempt petition is hereby dismissed.

Divya Pandey Contempt petition dismissed.