Pleader or .

Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 21 March 2011
This query is : Resolved
Criminal Procedure code, 1973 Section 24(9)
For the purposes of sub-section (7) and sub-section (8), the period during which a person has been in practice, is a pleader, or has rendered (whether before or after the commencement of this Code) service as a Public Prosecutor or as an Additional Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor or other Prosecuting Officer, by whatever name called, shall be deemed to be the period during which such person has been in practice as an advocate.
Query : AS per the above section it has been said (is a pleader,or) becasue the word "or" & Pleader" is also included in this context pleader of civil cases has been used so can we say that goverment pleader i also eligible to be a public prosecuotr ?
2) Meaning of quasi criminal in nature as it has been used in comtempt of court act, 1971 & also the meaning of quasi judicially ? Pls With the help of a example(S).