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` A3 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA INHERENT JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (Crl.) NO_____/2020 (Writ petition under Article 32 r/w 129 & 142 of the Constitution of India) IN THE MATTER OF: Adv. Nilesh S/o Chandrabhushan Ojha …. Petitioner (Original Alleged Contemnor No. 3) Versus Supreme Court of India through, Secretary General & Others ….Respondents PAPER BOOK (FOR INDEX KINDLY SEE INSIDE) THE PETITIONER IN PERSON – NILESH C. OJHA A4 INDEX RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Sr.No. Date of Proceedings Page Nos. INDEX OF PAPERS Sl. Particulars of Documents Page No. of part to Re- No. which it belongs marks Part I Part II (Contents (Contents of of Paper- file alone) Book) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) Court fees 1. Office report A A 2. Listing Proforma A1 A2 3. Cover page of Paper Book A3 4. Index of Record of A4 Proceedings 5. Limitation Report prepared by the Registry 6. Defect List 7. Note Sheet NS.1 to ... 8. Synopsis and List of Dates B-T 9. Writ Petition with affidavit 10. ANNEXURE:- P- 1 Copy of order dated 27.04.2020 passed by the Bench of Hon’ble Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose in SMCP 02/2019. 11. ANNEXURE:- P-2 Copy of order dated 04.05.2020 passed by the Bench of Hon’ble Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose in SMCP 02/2019. ANNEXURE:- P-3 Copy of order dated 09.12.2020 passed by the Bench of Hon’ble Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose in SMCP 02/2019. ANNEXURE:- P-4 Copy of order dated 02.09.2020 passed by the Bench of Hon’ble Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose in SMCP 02/2019. 12. Filling Memo 13. Vakalatnama and memo of appearance A IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA INHERENT JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (Crl.) NO_____/2020 (Writ petition under Article 32 r/w 129 & 142 of the Constitution of India) IN THE MATTER OF: Adv. Nilesh Ojha …. Petitioner (Original Alleged Contemnor No. 3) Versus Supreme Court of India through, Secretary General & Others ….Respondents OFFICE REPORT ON LIMITATION 1. The petition is / are within time. 2. The petition is barred by time and there is delay of _____ days in filing the same against order dated _____ and petition for condonation of ____ days delay has been filed. 3. There is delay of ____ days in refilling the petition and petition for condonation of ____ days delay in refilling has been filed. BRANCH OFFICER NEW DELHI DATED: 21.07.2020 A1 LISTING PROFORMA SECTION: WRIT The case pertains to (Please tick/check the correct box): Central Act : Constitution of India Section : Articles 32 and 129, 142 Central Rule : N.A. Rule No (s) : N.A. State Act : N.A. Section : N.A. State Rule : N.A. Rule No (s) : N.A. Impugned Interim Order : N.A. Impugned Final Order/Decree : YES High Court : N.A. Names of Judges : N.A. Tribunal/Authority : (Name) N.A. Nature of matter : Criminal (a) Petitioner/Appellant No.1 : Adv. Nilesh C. Ojha E-Mail ID: nileshojha79@ gmail.com (b) Mobile phone number: + 91- 9892915093 (a) Respondent No.1: Supreme Court of India through, Secretary General & Others (b) E-Mail ID: N.A.. (c) Mobile Phone Number: N.A. (a) Main category classification: 18, Ordinary Criminal matters (b) Sub classification: 1807, others A2 Note to be listed before: N.A. 6(a). Similar disposed of matter with citation, if any & case details: No similar matter is disposed of (b). Similar pending matter with case details: No similar matter is pending 7. Criminal Matters: (a) Whether accused/convict has surrendered: Yes ☑ No. (b)FIR No. N.A. Date : N.A. (c) Police Station: N.A. (d)Sentenced Awarded: YES (e) Sentenced Under gone: N.A. 8. Land Acquisition Matters: N.A. (a) Date of Section 4 notification: N.A. (b) Date of Section 6 notification: N.A. (c) Date of Section 17 notification: N.A. 9. Tax Matters: State the tax effect: N.A. 10. Special Category (first Petitioner/Appellant only): N.A. 65 years SC/ST Disabled 11. Vehicle Number (in case of Motor Accident Claim matters): N.A. Date: 21.07.200 PETITIONER- IN- PERSON B SYNOPSIS 1. The petitioner is filing this Writ Petition under Article 32 r/w 129, 142 of the Constitution of India for setting aside the conviction and sentence under contempt passed against him by the Ld. 2- Judge Bench [CORAM: Shri. Justice Deepak Gupta and Shri. Justice Aniruddha Bose] of this Hon’ble Court [hereinafter called as Trial Court] vide order 27.04.2020 and 04.05.2020 in SMCP (Cri.) 02 of 2019, in the matter between Re: Vijay Kurle and Others, where the Petitioner is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment with fine of Rs. 2000/- and is directed to surrender before the Respondent No.1 i.e. Secretary General of the Supreme Court on or before 25th August, 2020. 2. The petitioner is constrained to file this Writ Petition before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India as the order of conviction is passed by the 2-Judge Bench by exercising power under Article 129 of the Constitution. Therefore, as per law laid down in M. S. Ahlawat Vs. State (2000) 1 SCC 27 and further clarified by Constitution Bench in Rupa Ashok Hurra Vs. Ashok Hurra (2001) 4 SCC 388 in para 42 to 47, the only remedy is to file writ petition before this Hon’ble Court. There is no other alternate and efficacious remedy. 3. The impugned order is challenged on following main grounds; I) The order is vitiated as it is passed in wilful disregard of the binding precedent of the Hon’ble Court in P.N.Duda’s case (1988) 3 SCC 167, taking a view that, it as an obiter and not a binding precedent. In fact, the said judgment is made a binding precedent by the Full Bench in Bal Thackeray’s case (2005) 1 SCC 254, and therefore order is without jurisdiction and void. II) The order taking cognizance by the Judge in his own case is against the law laid down by Constitution Bench in the case of Supreme Court Advocate On Record Association (2016) 5 SCC 808, Re: C.S. Karnan (2017) 7 SCC 1, and therefore, the proceedings are without jurisdiction C and cannot be validated by any subsequent orders and hence, nullity, void ab-initio and vitiated as passed by the Coram-Non-Judice as ruled in Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar (2011) 14 SCC 770, Deepak Kumar Prahladka Vs. Chief Justice Prabha Shanker Mishra (2004) 5 SCC 217. III) Conviction is vitiated as the conviction is for a charge which is contrary and against the Court’s own order dated 02.09.2019 and 09.12.2019 and therefore, it is vitiated in view of law laid down in Lalu Prasad Yadav’s case (2017) 8 SCC 1, R.S. Sherawat Vs. Rajeev Malhotra (2018) 10 SCC 574 and Bhupesh Deb Gupta Vs. State (1979) 1 SCC 87. IV) The order punishing the petitioner for a charge of conspiring with alleged contemnor No.4 Mathews Nedumpara, which was already dropped by the order dated 02.09.2019 and 09.12.2019, is violative of doctrine of Double Jeopardy and Article 20 (2) of the Constitution and section 300 of Cr.P.C. and also against the law laid down in Sudhir Vasudera (2014) 3 SCC 373, Lalu Prasad Yadav (2017) 8 SCC 1 and therefore vitiates the entire conviction and sentence and makes the petitioner entitled for compensation. V) The Conviction is vitiated as it is based on per-incuriam findings in para 82 of the impugned judgment that, if Judge commits any blatant wrong, illegality or irregularity in passing a judgment then the only remedy is to challenge such order and not to seek action by filing a complaint. Such observation is against the law laid down by full bench in K.K. Dhawan’s case (1993) 2 SCC 56 and Bramha Prakash Sharma AIR 1954 SC 10. VI) The conviction is vitiated as it is based on per-incuriam findings in para 48 and para 86 of the impugned judgment that, no party can attribute motive to a Judge or question the bonafides of the Judge or to raise question with regard to the competence of the Judge. Such observations D are against the binding precedent of Constitution Bench in Re: C. S. Karnan (2017) 7 SCC 1, Subramanian Swamy vs. Arun Shourie (2014) 12 SCC 344, Addl. District & Sessions Judge ‘X’ (2015) 1 SCC 799, Baradkanta Mishra(1974)1 SCC 374, K. Veeraswamy’s case (1991) 3 SCC 655. VII) The Conviction is vitiated as it is based on per-incuriam findings in para 67 of the judgment and order that, the lawyer cannot claim right to file complaint against a Judge. This observation is against the law laid down in i] Bramha Prakash Sharma, AIR 1954 SC 10, ii] Arun Shourie (2014) 12 SCC 344,iii] R.K.Jain (2010) 8 SCC 281, iv] R. Muthukrishnan AIR 2019 SC 849. VIII) The Conviction is vitiated as it is based on per-incuriam findings in para 66 of the impugned judgment that, even if the Judge of Superior Court acts in wilful disregard and defiance of binding precedents of the higher benches, he will not be subject to contempt proceedings at the behest of an individual/lawyer. This finding is against the law laid down by Constitution Bench judgment in Re: C.S. Karnan (2017)7 SCC 1. IX) Order is vitiated in view of law laid down by the Constitution Bench judgment in Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra (2005) 2 SCC 673, for highly illegal observations by placing reliance on the editorial note of an author of a book and treating the same as a statute in order to reject the law and ratio laid down by the binding precedents of Full Bench and Constitution Benches of the Supreme Court and placing reliance on overruled judgments of smaller benches.