https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282206 A wilful breach of an undertaking accepted by the SC and embodied in a consent decree constitutes civil contempt, because the obligation is owed to the Court and is not displaced by the mere availability of execution proceedings. The respondents' later settlement concerning the same properties violated their undertaking not to alienate or encumber them, and civil contempt was established. On limitation, where the complainants were not earlier aware of the offending act and learnt of it only later in execution proceedings, the contempt period runs from the date of knowledge. The petition was therefore held to be in time. en-us Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:07:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282206 A wilful breach of an undertaking accepted by the SC and embodied in a consent decree constitutes civil contempt, because the obligation is owed to the Court and is not displaced by the mere availability of execution proceedings. The respondents' later settlement concerning the same properties violated their undertaking not to alienate or encumber them, and civil contempt was established. On limitation, where the complainants were not earlier aware of the offending act and learnt of it only later in execution proceedings, the contempt period runs from the date of knowledge. The petition was therefore held to be in time. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282206