To Constitute Civil Contempt, It Must Be Established That Disobedience Is Wilful, Deliberate And With Full Knowledge Of Consequences : SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has declined to initiate civil contempt proceedings against the Food Corporation of India, observing that the alleged disobedience was neither wilful nor deliberate.The contempt petitions were filed by several groups of workmen who sought regularization and departmentalization in the FCI. They alleged that the FCI had failed to regularize and departmentalize them as...