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Contempt Of Courts Act, 1971
15. Cognizance of criminal contempt in other cases.
(1) In the case of a criminal ... such Law Officer.]
(2) In the case of any criminal contempt of a subordinate court, the High Court may take
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(c) criminal contempt" means the publication (whether by words. spoken or written, or by signs
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country has
same jurisdiction.
Contempt of Court--Civil and criminal contempt--Criminal
contempt--Wide enough to include any act which ... published by Police Officers--Held constituted clear case of
criminal contempt--Contemners-punishment--Quantum of punish-
ment determined according
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interfere with the administration of
justice amount to criminal contempt under that Act and if in order to
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preclude ... Supreme Court holds prejudicial publication after ‘arrest’ can be criminal
contempt:
Under the Contempt of Courts Acts
Law Commission Report
again made submissions which
prima facie appeared to be criminal contempt of court. The
petition was rejected by this ... decided the disciplinary enquiry were, therefore, guilty of
criminal contempt of their own High Court. The appellant,
therefore. as soon
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Courts Act, 1971:
Sections 2(b), 17 and 20-Criminal Contempt-Advocate,
practising at High Court making libellous allegations
against ... order of the Chief Justice,
took cognizance of the criminal contempt and directed issue
of notice to the appellant directing
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being taken in
relation to civil as well as criminal contempt. It is not necessary, for
the purpose of this ... Court is provided in Section 14, while
cognizance of criminal contempt in other cases is dealt with by Section
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Standard of
proof for Criminal contempt-contempt by a judicial officer-
Assumption-If should be willful of jurisdiction erroneously ... High Court, however, found the Magistrate
guilty of 'Criminal contempt' on the following grounds:
1. The case between the parties
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empowers the High Court in the case of any criminal contempt
of a subordinate court, to take cognizance ... Section 2(c) of the Act defines `criminal contempt".
Section 9 emphasises that "nothing contained in this Act
shall
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actions which fall within
the definition of civil and criminal contempt in that Act.
If what is alleged ... were true then it would be a
case of criminal contempt and Criminal Contempt has been
defined
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