4 Contempt of Court

The constitutional basis (Article 128(4): the SC's — and Article 139(2): the HCs' — power over "anyone obstructing the judicial execution or not abiding by the order or verdict"); the categories (the civil-and-executional contempt; the criminal-and-scandalizing contempt); the statutory procedure (the contempt jurisdiction's summary character; the punishment's scale); the limits-and- balances (the fair-comment-and-criticism space; the sub-judice's Parliament-mirror — Article 105; the contempt power's own abuse-critique) — the full anatomy at Constitutional Law-II's Unit 6 (this semester); the recent practice (the media-and-social-media era's contempt cases; the transparency-vs-authority balance).