was carried by the Plaintiff – Petitioner on 10th April, 2018 and an amended copy of the plaint in the said suit was served upon the Respondent through Petitioner’s / Plaintiff’s advocate letter dated 9th June, 2018. It is only after such service that Respondent could have made an application in the contempt notice and not otherwise. Therefore, the delay in filing the application for amending the notice is only twelve days and the Respondent had shown sufficient cause for condoning the said delay, which was rightly condoned by the Trial Court and the Respondent’s application allowed. It is urged by the learned counsel that by raising such frivolous contentions before this Court, the only intention of the Petitioner is to abate the contempt proceedings filed by the original Defendant against the Petitioner. As the Petitioner has submitted fabricated, dubious, back dated and dishonestly self generated rent receipts claimed in the said RAD suit which is clearly borne out by the verification report dated 26th May, 2011 of the India Security Press, Nashik, such act of the Petitioner is squarely covered under the definition of criminal contempt under Section 2(c) of the Contempt of Courts Act.
