https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194337 Conduct during pending litigation that is calculated to coerce a litigant into withdrawing or not pressing the case may amount to contempt because contempt extends beyond direct attacks on the court to acts tending to interfere with the due course of justice. In the stated majority view, departmental proceedings initiated against a government servant while his civil suit was pending had a practical tendency to pressure him in relation to that suit, so the charge-sheet and disciplinary action were treated as contempt. The forwarding officer was also treated as having directed the proceedings, rather than acting merely as a neutral conduit. A dissenting view considered the charge-sheet to concern only service misconduct and not the pending suit. en-us Mon, 29 Jan 1962 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:49:37 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194337 Conduct during pending litigation that is calculated to coerce a litigant into withdrawing or not pressing the case may amount to contempt because contempt extends beyond direct attacks on the court to acts tending to interfere with the due course of justice. In the stated majority view, departmental proceedings initiated against a government servant while his civil suit was pending had a practical tendency to pressure him in relation to that suit, so the charge-sheet and disciplinary action were treated as contempt. The forwarding officer was also treated as having directed the proceedings, rather than acting merely as a neutral conduit. A dissenting view considered the charge-sheet to concern only service misconduct and not the pending suit. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 29 Jan 1962 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194337