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
Contempt Of Courts Act, 1971
10. Power of High Court to punish contempts of subordinate courts.—
Every High Court shall have and exercise the same ... contempts of courts subordinate to it as it has and exercises in respect of contempts of itself: Provided that no High Court shall take cognizance
Constitution of India
India
Constitution of India
CONTITUENTASSEMBLY 00 of 1950
Published in Gazette 00
Contempt Of Courts Act, 1971
2. Definitions.—
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “contempt of court” means ... civil contempt or criminal contempt; (b) “civil contempt” means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court
Judges of
the Pepsu High Court this Court was concerned with the issue
whether this Court could transfer contempt proceedings from Pepsu
High Court ... with criminal contempt but also with civil contempt. It
applies not only to the contempt committed in the face of the High
Court
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 ... time of publication shall not be deemed to constitute contempt of court. (3) A person shall not be guilty of contempt of court
court shall impose a sentence under this Act for a contempt of court unless it is satisfied that the contempt is of such a nature ... justice; (b) the court may permit, in any proceeding for contempt of court, justification by truth as a valid defence if it is satisfied that
Supreme Court to be a Court of Record, while Article 216
declares a High Court also to be a Court of Record.
A court ... 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 an infe-
rior court subordinate to the. High Court. (2) Even if the
Supreme Court is a court of record ... deci-
sions. The Federal Court observed that if the High Court and
the Federal Court both have concurrent jurisdiction in
contempt matters, it could lead
