The Supreme Court on Wednesday started contempt proceedings against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), issuing show cause notices to two members of an NCLAT bench for pronouncing a judgement in the Finolex Cables case despite directions from the SC to maintain status quo in it. A three-judge bench, headed by chief justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, asked NCLAT judicial member Rakesh Kumar and technical member Alok Srivastava why “contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them”. The NCLAT members have been asked to be present before the SC bench on October 30.
