Warning political parties of contempt action, the Bombay High Court today directed BJP leader Ashish Shelar to publish appeals to party members in leading newspapers to not put up illegal hoardings across the metropolis.

A division bench of Justices A S Oka and Revati Mohite Dere had on March 12 issued show cause notice to Shelar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray and party leader Bala Nandgaonkar, BJP's Mukund Kulkarni and NCP's Shivaji Ghajre.