The Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to suggest four to five names of retired navy personnel having experience in manufacture and breaking of ships to give opinion on the controversial French ship Clemenceau.

Without expressing any opinion on the Court's monitoring committee report, a division bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice H S Kapadia asked the Ministry of Defence to give the names for the panel by February 17, the next date of hearing.

Taking exception to holding demonstrations and writing of "one sided" articles on the Clemenceau issue, the Bench said it will issue contempt proceedings against those resorting to such things now onwards.

Meanwhile, the Court said its earlier order restraining the ship from entering India's Exclusive Economic Zone continues.

The Court also asked the Customs Department to give its view if the ship could be allowed to enter the Indian waters. The monitoring committee report submitted before the Bench last week gave a 7-3 split opinion on the issue.