Writ Plea Against Advocate General's Refusal To Grant Nod For Criminal Contempt Proceedings Isn't Maintainable: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has said that a writ plea challenging the Advocate General's refusal to grant permission for initiating criminal contempt proceedings is non-maintainable. A bench of Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Justice Manjive Shukla observed this while referring to the Supreme Court's order in P.N. Duda v. P. Shiv Shanker and Others, 1988, wherein it was held that in cases of refusal...