Contempt of Court
- Recently the Supreme Court issued contempt of court notice against Lawyer and Social Activist Prashant Bhushan for his remarks on social media against judiciary.
- Articles 129 and 215 of the constitution enable the courts to hold individuals in contempt if they attempt to demean or belittle their authority.
- In India, the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, divides contempt into civil contempt and criminal contempt.
- Civil contempt is a ‘wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other processes of a Court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to the court’.
- ‘Criminal contempt’is ‘the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or ....
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