Contempt of Courts Act,1971

Act No : 70

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Section : Definitions.

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 judg- ment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court ; (c) criminal contempt " means the publication (whether by words. spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise) of any matter or the doing of any other act whatsoever which- (i) scandalises or tends to scandalise, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court ; or (ii) prejudices, or interferes or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or (iii)interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner ; (d) "High Court" means the High Court for a State or a Union territory, and includes the Court of the Judicial Commissioner in any Union territory. 148

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