The Supreme Court on Friday (September 26) held two tenants guilty of contempt for willfully disobeying its order to vacate rented premises in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and imposed civil imprisonment on one of them along with monetary penalties.

A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi sentenced one contemnor to three months' civil imprisonment and directed that he be taken into custody and lodged in Tihar Jail. He was also ordered to pay a fine of ₹1 lakh to the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee within two months, failing which he will undergo an additional one month in prison.

As the second contemnor was 82 years old, the Court refrained from sending him to jail but imposed a ₹5 lakh fine, to be deposited within two months, failing which he will serve one month's civ

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