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By Our Staff Reporter
CHENNAI, NOV. 5. The First Bench of the Madras High Court today sentenced the former MP, Valampuri John, to one-month simple imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 2,000 for having disobeyed court orders and written letters "to scandalise the court." Finding Mr. John guilty of both civil and criminal contempt of court, the Chief Justice, B. Subhashan Reddy, and Justice A.K. Rajan said, "Mr. John has got a right to challenge any order passed, but being a party to the proceedings, he cannot say the judge who passed the order has no sense of justice and penalised him (John) for exterior considerations." The judges, however, suspended the sentence for 15 days and granted one week's time for Mr. John to pay the fine. The matter relates to a contempt application preferred by S.N. Mani, who was the guarantor for Mr. John when the latter availed himself of a bank loan. Despite a court direction to deposit 50 per cent of the loan and furnish a list of his property, the former MP failed to comply. When counsel for Mr. Mani wrote to Mr. John reminding him of the court order, the latter replied that he would not bow before a judge who did not have a "sense of justice." While sentencing Mr. John , the Bench said there was no necessity to impose a separate punishment for civil contempt.
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