https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=290403 A communication offering compromise and reserving the right to take lawful proceedings if settlement failed did not amount to contempt of court, because it was a bona fide attempt to resolve a dispute and not a threat designed to coerce withdrawal of pending proceedings. Likewise, filing criminal counter-complaints in assertion of existing or asserted rights was treated as a lawful recourse to the court, even though it arose from a prior dispute. The court distinguished genuine settlement proposals and lawful litigation from intimidation intended to disgrace, harm, or pressure a litigant into abandoning a case, and rejected the contempt application. en-us Thu, 28 Apr 1949 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:06:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=290403 A communication offering compromise and reserving the right to take lawful proceedings if settlement failed did not amount to contempt of court, because it was a bona fide attempt to resolve a dispute and not a threat designed to coerce withdrawal of pending proceedings. Likewise, filing criminal counter-complaints in assertion of existing or asserted rights was treated as a lawful recourse to the court, even though it arose from a prior dispute. The court distinguished genuine settlement proposals and lawful litigation from intimidation intended to disgrace, harm, or pressure a litigant into abandoning a case, and rejected the contempt application. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 28 Apr 1949 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=290403