NEW DELHI: “This is not how you can treat our judges,” Supreme Court on Monday told a petitioner who sought initiation of contempt proceedings against a district court judge for allegedly “not obeying the order of the apex court.“A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna & R Mahadevan took strong exception to the petitioner for seeking proceedings against a additional district and sessions judge of Himachal Pradesh and refused to let off the petitioner when the lawyer pleaded to allow him to withdraw the contempt petition. “You can not get away like this. Filing of the contempt petition is itself an abuse of the process of law,” the bench said and directed the petitioner to deposit Rs 5,000 to SC Legal Services Authority. The court said the petitioner can move HC challenging the order of the lower court and raise grievances there but not by filing contempt proceedings against the judge. It also said that lawyers should not encourage the litigants to file such a petition.
