Section 12 in The Contempt Of Courts Act, 1971
12. Punishment for contempt of court.—
(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this ... contempt of court in respect of any undertaking given to a court is a company, every person who, at the time the contempt was committed
Foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence. (3) Nothing in sub-clause ... State, friendly relations with foreign nations, public order, decency or morality, contempt of court, defamation, incitement to an offense, or the sovereignty and integrity
Constitution of India
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Constitution of India
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Contempt Of Courts Act, 1971
3. Innocent publication and distribution of matter not contempt.—
(1) A person shall not be guilty of contempt of court ... deemed to constitute contempt of court. (3) A person shall not be guilty of contempt of court on the ground that he has distributed
time being in force,— (a) no court shall impose a sentence under this Act for a contempt of court unless it is satisfied that ... course of justice; (b) the court may permit, in any proceeding for contempt of court, justification by truth as a valid defence
Supreme Court
or the High Court, as a Court of Record, to punish for
contempt nor vest that power in some other court.
After ... which may be imposed
for contempt of court by the court
of Appeal, High Court or Crown
Court. Similarly the statutory
provisions relating
State appeal, the Court
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HELD: 1. Every abuse of process of the court may not
necessarily amount to contempt of Court. Abuse of process ... process of the Court.
The High Court expressed the view that there was
no specific allegation that any contempt of Court had
been committed
Supreme Court
or the High Court, as a Court of Record, to punish for
contempt nor vest that power in some other court.
After ... which may be imposed
for contempt of court by the court
of Appeal, High Court or Crown
Court. Similarly the statutory
provisions relating
Contempt of Supreme Court under section
15(1)(a) and (b) of-Read with rule 3(a), (b) and (c) supreme
Court Contempt of Court ... Supreme Court to regulate proceedings for Contempt of
Supreme Court makes it clear that so far as this Court is
concerned, action for contempt
between civil and criminal contempt :
28. What is the distinction between civil contempt and criminal contempt ? Civil contempt or contempt in procedure ... prison just as a criminal contempt can. But civil contempt is essentially remedial and coercive. Civil contempt of court exists to provide the ultimate sanction
