New Delhi: The Bombay high court in Goa said recently that contempt of court provisions should be used to protect the rights of people and make sure the administration of justice continues unhampered – and not to protect the court from insult of injury.A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M.S. Sonak, according to Bar and Bench, refused to initiate action against an individual who had uploaded allegedly contemptuous videos on WhatsApp and YouTube. The judiciary, the bench said, has the ability to shrug of spurious allegations.“The Court has the duty of protecting this interest of the community in the due administration of justice and, so, it is entrusted with the power to punish for its contempt. This power is to be only sparingly exercised, not to protect the dignity of the Court against insult or injury, but, to protect and vindicate the right of the people so that the administration of justice is not perverted, prejudiced, obstructed, or interfered with,” the court’s order said.Videos and remarks of the kind in question, they continued, should be viewed “with contempt” rather than as “in contempt”, the judges continued. “Such content, allegedly uploaded by respondent no.1, is best treated with contempt, rather than in contempt particularly since respondent no.1 has neither bothered to cite any specific instances nor bothered to lodge any complaints backed by even, prima facie, credible material,” Bar and Bench quoted the high court as saying.The complainant, one Kashinath Shetye, had earlier received permission to initiate contempt proceedings against one David Clever from the advocate general.“To take this matter any further might only serve to feed the publicity craze of those that have uploaded this content to provoke rather than out of some concern to bring to fore some genuine grievance concerning the administration of justice in Goa,” the bench said, adding that it would not be taking matters further even though it thought the videos may seen as contemptuous.