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| Pakistan SC dismissed the contempt charges against Imran Khan, who criticized the role of the judiciary and the election commission terming it shameful |
Under
the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 contempt has been classified into (1) civil
contempt and (2) criminal contempt. Civil contempt includes “wilful disobedience to any judgment,
decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of
an undertaking given to a court”, whereas criminal contempt covers cases in
which a persons does anything which scandalises, lowers the authority of or
interferes with the functioning of the Court. (Image taken from here.)
When
we hear the word ‘civil’ we think of ‘remedy’, ‘compensation’ or ‘damages’.
Interestingly the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 does not provide for any of these.
