Summarize the following court judgment. minal Appeal No. 568 of 1976. (From the Order dt. 2 4 1975 of the Punjab and Haryana High	 Court at Chandigarh in Criminal Original No. 15/Crl.11975). Mohan Behari Lal for the Appellant. Hardev Singh	 Sunada Bhandare and Mohini for the Respondents Nos. 1 2. 511 section M. Kacker	 Sol. Genl. & R. N. Sachthey for Respondent No. 3. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by UNTWALIA	 J. This is an appeal filed by the alleged contemner under section 19(1) of the (hereinafter called the Act)	 from the order dated 2nd April	 1975 of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana directing the issue of notice to the appellant to show cause why he should not be proceeded against for committing con tempt of the High Court. The Notice was issued in accordance with the procedure prescribed under section 17 of the Act	 to show cause against the appellant 's alleged liability to be punished under section 15. A preliminary objection was raised by the	 Learned Solicitor General		 on behalf of the respondents that no appeal lies to this Court under section 19 of the Act from an order issuing notice as nothing yet has been decided by the High Court. Mr. Mohan Behari Lai	 learned counsel for the appellant combated this argument and submitted that an appeal does lie to this Court as a matter of right under section 19. In our opinion	 the preliminary objection raised on behalf of the	 respondents is well founded and must be accepted as correct. section 19(1) says .lm15 An appeal shall lie as of right from any order or decision of the High Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction to punish for contempt (a) where the order or decision is that of a single judge	 to a Bench of not less than two Judges of the Court; (b) where the order or decision is that of a Bench	 to the Supreme Court : Provided that where the order or decision is that of the Court of the Judicial Commissioner in any Union territory	 such appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court. " It would appear from a plain reading of the section that an appeal shall lie to this Court as a matter of right from any order or decision of a bench of the High Court if the order has been made in the exercise of its jurisdiction to punish for contempt. No appeal can lie as a matter of right from any kind of order made by the High Court in the proceeding for contempt: The proceeding is initiated under section 17 by issuance of a notice. Thereafter	 there may be many interlocutory orders passed in the said proceeding by the High Court. It could not be the intention of the legislature to provide for an appeal to this Court as a matter of right from each and every such order made by the High Court. The order or the decision must be such that it decides some bone of contention raised before the High Court affecting the right of the party aggrieved. Mere initiation of a proceeding for contempt by the issuance	 of the notice on the prima facie view that the case is a fit one for drawing up the proceeding	 does not decide any question. This Court	 512 for the first time	 cannot be asked in such an appeal to decide whether the; person proceeded against has committed contempt of the High Court or not. The matter has to be decided either finally or	 may be. even at an earlier stage an order is made	 which does decide a contention raised by the alleged contemner asking the	 High Court to drop the	 proceeding. It is neither possible	 nor advisable	 to make an exhaustive list of the: typo of orders which may be appealable to this Court under section 19. A final order	 surely	 will be appealable. Our attention was drawn by Mr. Mohan Behari Lai	 to section 20 of the Act which provides "No Court shall initiate any proceedings for contempt	 either on its own motion or otherwise	 after the expiry of a period of one year from the date on which the contempt is alleged to have been committed. " He submitted that initiation of the proceeding by the High Court will be	 without jurisdiction if it is in violation of section 20. It may be so. If the alleged contemner in response to the notice appears before the High Court and asks it to drop the proceeding on the. ground of its being barred under section 20 of the Act but the High Court holds that the	 proceeding is not barred	 it may well be that an appeal would lie to this Court under section 19 from such an order although the proceeding has remained pending in the High Court. We are not called upon to express our final opinion in regard to such an order	 but we merely mention this type of order by way of an example to show that even orders made at some intermittent stage in the proceeding may be	 appealable under section 19. In our considered judgment	 an order merely initiating the proceeding without anything further	 does not decide anything against the alleged contemner and cannot be appealed against as a matter of right tinder section 19. in a given case special leave may be granted under article 136 of the Constitution from an order initiating the proceeding. But that is entirely a different matter. What we are deciding in	 this case is that the present appeal filed under section 19 (1) of the Act does not lie and is incompetent. We find some support to	 the view expressed by us above from the decision of this Court in Baradakanta Mishra vs Orissa High Court	(1) where it has been held that no appeal lies to this Court under section 19 of the Act from an order rejecting the prayer of the alleged contemner for bearing the case piecemeal. Mr. Lai placed reliance on the observations of this Court in Baradakanta Mishra vs Justice Gatikrushna Mishra (2). What has been decided therein is this : that on a reference made by the Advocate General if the Court declines to take cognisance and to initiate proceeding for contempt	 the order is not an order initiating contempt proceeding. Surely	 it is not appealable under section 19. But there are no observations by this Court nor on the facts of that case there can be any	. to show that an appeal would lie to	 this Court from an order of the High Court merely initiating the proceeding by issuance of a notice. We	 may repeat that it may be	 a different matter if the order does decide (1) A.I.R. 1976 S.C. 1206. (2) ; (at pp. 531 32). 513 some disputes raised before it by the contemner asking it to drop the proceeding on one ground or the other. But unless and until there is some order or decision of the High Court adjudicating upon any matter raised before it by the parties	 affecting their right	 the mere order issuing the notice is not appealable. The appeal is	 therefore	 dismissed as being not maintainable. P H. P. Appeal dismissed.

The High Court passed an order directing issue of notice to the appellant to show cause why he should not be proceeded against for committing contempt .of the High Court. The notice was issued in accordance with the procedure prescribed under section 17 of the . The appellant filed an appeal against the said order under section 19(1) of the Act in this Court. The counsel for the respondent raised a preliminary objection that no appeal under section 19(1) is maintainable against the order in question. Dismissing the appeal the Court	 HELD : (1) An appeal lies to this Court as a matter of right from any order or decision of a Bench of the High Court if the order has been made in the exercise of its jurisdiction to punish for contempt. However	 an appeal cannot lie from any kind of order made by the High Court in the proceeding for contempt. The proceeding is initiated under section 17 by issuance of a notice. Thereafter	 there may be many interlocutory orders passed in the said proceeding by the High Court. It could not be the intention of the Legislature to provide for an appeal to this Court as a matter of right from each and every such order made by the High Court. The order or the decision must be such that. it decides some bone of contention raised before the High Court affecting the right of the party aggrieved. Mere initiation of a proceeding does not decide any question. [511 F H] 2. if the alleged contemner in response to the notice appears before the High Court and asks it to drop the proceedings on the ground of its being barred under Section 20 of the Act but the High Court holds that the proceedings is not barred	 it may well be that an appeal would lie to this Court under section 19 It is neither possible nor advisable to make an exhaustive list of the type of orders which may be appealable under section 19. [512 B C] Baradakanta Mishra vs Orissa	 High Court	 A.I.R. 1976 S.C. 1206	 relied on. Baradakanta Mishra vs Justice Gatikrushna Mishra ; 	 53132	 distinguished.