{"id":4451,"date":"2011-10-01T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>  <h2>5. Fair criticism of judicial act not contempt -<\/h2>  <p>\u00a0<\/p><p> A person shall not be guilty of contempt of court for publishing any fair comment o"},"modified":"2011-10-01T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T15:34:28","slug":"coc-s5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/bare-acts\/contempt\/coc-s5.htm","title":{"rendered":"Section 5 &#8211; The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>5. Fair criticism of judicial act not contempt &#8211;<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> A person shall not be guilty of contempt of court for publishing any fair comment on the merits of any case which has been heard and finally decided.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENTS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Judgments are open to criticism that must be done without casting aspersions on the judges and the courts and without adverse comments amounting to scandalising the courts; Advocate General v. Abraham George, 1976 Cr LJ 158 (161).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"coc-s4.htm\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"coc-s6.htm\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"contemptact.htm\"><strong>The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/\"><strong>Indian Laws &#8211; Bare Acts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Section 5 -The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Indian Laws and Bare Acts at MyNation.net,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"sidebar-page.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17921],"tags":[15441,17544,17545,17329,17923,17924,4565,15442,14064,17330,17294,17546,17927],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contempt","tag-15441","tag-acts-of-india","tag-bare-acts-at-mynation-net","tag-bare-acts-of-india","tag-contempt-2","tag-contempt-of-courts","tag-contempt-of-courts-act","tag-contempt-of-courts-act-1971","tag-indian-laws","tag-laws-2","tag-laws-of-india","tag-laws-of-india-at-mynation-net","tag-the-contempt-of-courts-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynation.net\/laws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}