Dispute over dog feeding: HC issues show-cause notice to Navi Mumbai society member for ‘derogatory’ circular against judiciary

It besides said it would see if contempt proceedings tin beryllium initiated against different members of society’s managing committee.

The connection successful question was authored by 1 Vineeta Srinandan, Cultural Director of Seawoods Estates Limited (SEL) that manages a residential analyzable consisting of 1500 positive flats and her authorised typical Alok Agarwal.

Last week, a seat of Justices Girish S Kulkarni and Advait M Sethna had said that the contempt proceedings were required to beryllium initiated for ‘brazen and derogatory’ comments against the judicial strategy successful the said communication.

On January 21, portion proceeding Verma’s interim application, the seat had directed the lodging nine not to forestall home assistance from visiting her, lone due to the fact that she was feeding dogs successful the society’s premises. It had said that by doing so, the nine was breaching her cardinal rights.

The nine subsequently issued a circular/communication utilizing ‘derogatory’ connection against the judicial system.

The Court had asked the managing committee of the society/Board of Directors (BoD) of the steadfast managing the nine to walk a solution expressing regret and remorse for enactment by Srinandan on with ‘impunity and tenor’ successful her writings. It was incapable to initiate contempt proceedings past week arsenic Srinandan was abroad.

It had besides observed that the connection was issued with ‘tacit cognition and understanding’ of the BoD.

On Friday, Agarwal filed an affidavit connected behalf of Society tendering an unconditional apology to the court, which the tribunal termed arsenic ‘casual’. Her lawyer sought clip to record different due affidavit.

“The question is whether we should continue to give laxity to the petitioner to spell connected filing affidavits arsenic helium had presented earlier the court. It appears rather wide to america that communications issued which we recovered objectionable amounting to transgression contempt are issued with the afloat cognition of members of BoD. There is thing to amusement they person distanced themselves from specified communication,” the seat noted and said that the aforesaid cannot beryllium ‘overlooked.’

The seat past sought to cognize the names and interaction details of the members of BoD to see whether enactment of transgression contempt tin beryllium initiated against them on with Srinandan.

“With immoderate station you (Srinandan) are holding (in lodging society), determination comes with onerous work and nationalist duty, which this pistillate has wholly forgotten what is her ineligible duty. We had not travel crossed specified audacity astatine slightest successful our decades of travel successful instrumentality that an educated idiosyncratic has written thing similar this astir the judiciary. Irrespective of whether educated oregon not, radical person the highest respect (for the judiciary). But this is simply a caller breed. People with truthful overmuch cognition spell and tarnish the representation and prestige of the court, regularisation of instrumentality successful our country. We bash not privation this to hap again and cannot tolerate immoderate reckless national sitting successful lodging complexes doing this,” Justice Kulkarni for the seat orally remarked.

“We person not the slightest of doubts that looking astatine the quality of the communications and the much peculiarly connection utilized successful connection which lowers the dignity of the tribunal arsenic also interferes in medication of justice, contempt proceedings are required to beryllium issued against its author Srinandan,” the seat noted successful the bid and issued show-cause announcement to her and posted proceeding aft 2 weeks on February 21.