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(2) A.I.R. 1950 All. 549: 554.

to the appropriate authority by reason of a fear of being punished for contempt, and I can find no justification for this view."

At this stage it must be noticed that in the State of Madhya Pradesh v. Ravi Shanker(1) this Court ruled that aspersions of a serious nature made against a Magistrate in a transfer petition could be punishable as a contempt if made without good faith. However, in Govind Ram v. State of Maharashtra,(2) this Court reviewed the decisions on the point and ruled that if in the garb of a transfer application scurrilous attacks were made on a court imputing improper motives to the Judge there may still be contempt of court, although the court referred with approval to the ruling in Swarnamayi Panigrahi v. B. Nayak(3) that a latitudinarian approach was permissible in transfer applications. The core of the pronouncement is that permission remedial process like a transfer application cannot be a mask to malign a judge, a certain generosity or indulgence is justified in evaluating the allegations against the judge. Eventually, Grover J., held that the allegations made in the proceeding in question were not sufficiently serious to constitute contempt. A liberal margin is permissible in such cases but batting within the crease and observing the rules of the game are still necessary. Irrelevant or unvarnished imputations under the pretext of grounds of appeal amount to foul play and perversion of legal process. Here, the author, a senior judicial officer who professionally weighs his thoughts and words, has no justification for the immoderate abuse he has resorted to. In this sector even truth is no defence, as in the case of criminal insult-in the latter because it May Produce violent breaches and is forbidden in the name of public peace, and in the former because it may demoralise, the community about courts and is forbidden in the interests of public justice as contempt of court.