substantially with the
proper conduct of business. Such interference is known as
contempt of Parliament. Collectively this is known as the penal
jurisdiction ... Sampath Kumar amount to violation of privileges of
legislators and contempt of legislature affecting the dignity and
decorum and their continuance as Members
Sampath Kumar amount to violation of privileges of Legislators and
contempt of Legislature affecting the dignity and decorum and their
continuance as Members ... legislators from the
membership of the House for their unruly and contemptuous
behavior, which amounted to violation of the privileges of the
Legislators, and contempt
High Court can punish the contempt of itself and of its subordinate Courts/ Tribunals. Contempt of Court is contempt of the authority of the Sovereign ... contempt of its authority, an interior Court of Record can only commit for contempts committed in open Court, in facie curias. The contempt jurisdiction
punish for its contempt summarily, period of limitation in Section 20 of the Contempt of Courts Act has no application to contempt proceedings initiated ... cannot be restricted and trammelled by any ordinary legislation including the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 . In this view of the matter, the decisions cited
Ananth Reddy , that the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 vests the power of contempt only in two Courts i.e., Supreme Court and the High ... matters, the Administrative Tribunal was vested with the power of contempt by referential Legislation under Section 17 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 and such
limitation for initiation of actions for contempt which reads thus :
"No Court shall initiate any proceedings for contempt, either on its own motion ... reading of S. 20 manifests the legislative animation that the proceedings for contempt of Court shall be initiated as expeditiously as possible within a maximum
this Contempt Application No. 7 of 1979 is an unsuccessful candidate at the assembly Elections held to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in February ... circumstances of this case would amount to committing contempt of this Court. As contempt of Court proceedings are Criminal in nature, we cannot answer this
proceedings under Sections 10 and 12 of Contempt of Courts Act. Thus contending, he sought the contempt petition be admitted.
4. Reliance placed by both ... respectively cannot be restricted and trammeled by any ordinary Legislation including the provisions of the Contempt of Courts Act and their inherent power is elastic
months' time expired by April 11, 1988. The contempt application was filed on June 17, 1988 and came up for admission on June ... disobeyed the orders of this Court, punishable under Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act 1971. On issue of notice on admission, the respondent
calculated to interfere with the due administration of justice will not be contempt of Court because on the part of the contemner there ... proceedings and talked in favour of and justified the legislation, they were guilty of committing contempt of Court. In Vidya Charon Shukla case (supra
