Kanwaljit Kaur and Ors. v. Amrik Singh and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
The Court dismissed a Letter Patents Appeal against an order in a contempt petition. The appellants argued that proceedings should be dropped after the death of the contemnor. The Court held the plea should have been raised earlier and dismissed the appeal, noting it did not decide on the maintainability of the appeal itself.
What did the court decide?
The appeal was dismissed with liberty to raise the plea regarding the death of the contemnor before the Single Judge.