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In the last paragraph of the reply it was stated:

Whatever the circumstances, I do see how much this application for transfer dated the 23rd August 1950 has hurt the feelings of the Hon. Judges and I very much regret that all this should have happened.
(5) Shri Shareef also put in a similar written statement. He asserted that when the transfer application was made he did not know or believe the law to be that it could not be made, and rightly or wrongly he was always under the impression that an application could be made for transferring a case in the High Court from one Bench to another. He also expressed similar regret for what had happened. Further written statement was filed by Shri Shareef on 16th October 1950.
But even as I am making my defence, it is, I idmit, quite likely that I committed an error of judgment in acting as I did, causing pain to the Hon. Judges, which 1 deeply regret, as I have already done before and so has my counsel on my behalf in the course of his arguments." (The Judges in the Judgment under appeal have taken exception to the last sentence of this paragraph).
Dr. Kathalay also put in a similar jreply.
(6) The High Court in a very lengthy judgment in which very large number of authorities were considered and discussed, held that the application for transfer constituted contempt because the judges were scandalized with a view to diverting the due course of justice. The two advocates who signed and prosecuted the application were found guilty of contempt.
If the two advocates felt that there was an error of judgment on their part, it would have been more appropriate to make a candid and clear admission of that and make reparation for the injury done by an adequate apology. We cannot treat the expression 'I very much regret that all this should have happened' as an apology at all. Nor were we ever asked to treat it as such. What is it that the two advocates regret? So many things have happened since 21st August 1950. Any expression of regret to merit consideration must be genuine contriteness for what the contemners have done.
Leave to appeal to this Court was refused but was granted here.
(7) On the 12th May 1954 when the appeal was heard by this Court, we recorded the following order:
The appellants have tendered an unqualified apology to this Court find 'to the High Court', and they are prepared to purge the contempt for which they have been convicted. In our opinion, the apology is a sincere expression of their regret for what happened in Court at the time the transfer application was made and for the allegations made therein. We therefore adjourn this appeal for two months and direct that the apology tendered here be tendered to the Division Bench before which the contempt is said to have been committed. We are sending it to the High Court with the full confidence that the learned Judges will consider the apology in the spirit in which it has been tendered and they will pass appropriate orders and send an intimation to this Court as to what orders they pass.