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Remarks on Court

Contempt rule sought against Mamata

Our Correspondent, New Delhi
A petition was filed yesterday at the Supreme Court of India, seeking contempt proceedings against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for saying that many judgements were delivered for money.
Mamata made the remark on Tuesday at the platinum jubilee celebration of the state legislature in Calcutta.
The statement intended to question the integrity, reputation and authority of the judiciary and would have an inevitable impact on undermining public confidence in it, said petitioner Bhim Singh, founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Panthers' Party.
In the petition he sought a directive on the government to produce the recording of the speech delivered by Mamata at the programme, adding that people lend to take the words of a popular chief minister seriously.
Referring to Article 129 of the constitution, the petitioner said the chief minister's comment amounted to undermining the authority
of the judiciary as a whole.
Citing a number of apex court rulings, Bhim Singh also said that under Article 129 the Supreme Court had the power to punish the person for contempt of court and under Article 143(2) it could investigate any such matter.
Meanwhile, a section of lawyers moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking a suo moto contempt of court rule against the chief minister for the same reason.
The HC bench of Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi refused to issue a suo moto rule and said a contempt petition could be filed.
The chief justice's bench also observed that the chief minister had given her personal opinion and the court was not disturbed by such comments.
On another plea by senior
counsel B i k a s h Bhattacharya, a former mayor of Calcutta and a leader of Communist Party of India-Marxist [CPI(M)1, a divisional bench of the High Court comprising Justice K J Sengupta and Justice A K Mo nd al directed two national English dailies and two news channels to file affidavits within three weeks on the authenticity of their reports on the speech.
After examining the affidavits, the court will decide whether to initiate any contempt proceedings against Mamata, lawyers said. The matter will come up for hearing after four weeks.
Earlier, B ikash Bhattacharya submitted two CDs containing the recordings of television reports and also copies of the two newspaper reports and prayed for suo motu contempt pro-