Contempt of Courts Act, 1971

Act No. 70 of 1971 In force from 24-12-1971 Ministry of Law and Justice 24 sections

An Act to define and limit the powers of certain courts in punishing contempts of courts and to regulate their procedure in relation thereto.

222 Supreme Court judgments considering this law. Search within these.

• Calcutta Youth Front & Anr. v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
  1988 INSC 26812 September 1988Dismissed
• D.N. Taneja v. Bhajan Lal
  1988 INSC 1364 May 1988Dismissed
• P.N. Duda v. P. Shiv Shankar & Others
  1988 INSC 10815 April 1988Dismissed
• Bigyan Kumar & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
  1988 INSC 7818 March 1988Disposed of
• Bharat Coking Coal Limited v. State of Bihar & Ors.
  1987 INSC 31710 November 1987Disposed of
• Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India & Anr.
  1987 INSC 2779 October 1987Dismissed
• State of Bihar Etc. Etc. v. Kripalu Shanker Etc. Etc.
  1987 INSC 13128 April 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• Amrit Nahata v. Union of India
  1985 INSC 1298 May 1985Disposed of
• Mohammad Idris and Anr. v. Rustam Jahangir Babuji and Others.
  1984 INSC 15322 August 1984Dismissed
• M.R. Parashar and Ors. v. Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Ors.
  1984 INSC 2331 January 1984Dismissed
• Asharam M. Jain v. A. T. Gupta and Others
  1983 INSC 10325 August 1983Disposed of
• R.K. Garg, Advocate v. State of Himachal Pradesh
  1981 INSC 9822 April 1981Partly allowed
• S. K. Sarkar, Member, Board of Revenue, U.P., Lucknow v. Vinay Chandra Misra
  1980 INSC 23212 December 1980Dismissed
• Advocate General, State of Bihar v. Madhya Pradesh Khair Industries Ltd.
  1980 INSC 415 March 1980Appeal(s) allowed
• Purshottam Das Goyal v. Honble Mr. Justice B. S. Dhillon and Ors.
  1978 INSC 6917 March 1978Dismissed
• Rama Dayal Markarha v. State of Madhya Pradesh
  1978 INSC 6714 March 1978Partly allowed
• Hargovind Dayal Srivastava & Anr v. G. N. Verma & Ors.
  1977 INSC 812 January 1977Disposed of
• Ram Partap Sharma and Ors. v. Daya Nand and Ors.
  1976 INSC 18119 August 1976Appeal(s) allowed
• Arun Kshetrapal v. Registrar, High Court, Jabalpur & Anr.
  1976 INSC 1674 August 1976Appeal(s) allowed
• Abdul Karim v. M. K. Prakash and Ors.
  1976 INSC 1430 January 1976Partly allowed
• Baradakanta Mishra v. Mr. Justice Gatikrushna Mishra
  1974 INSC 12421 June 1974Dismissed
• Baradakanta Mishra v. The Registrar of Orissa High Court & Anr.
  1973 INSC 21019 November 1973Dismissed