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The Judicial Power of Contempt: Upholding authority or restricting speech?

The Judicial Power of Contempt: Upholding authority or restricting speech?” looks at Criminal Contempt and particularly the way it affects freedom of speech and expression, and efforts to ensure judicial accountability. By laying out the law and procedure on criminal contempt in India and judicial interpretation, this report attempts to explore the scope of criminal contempt, parameters devised by courts for determining a speech as contemptuous and the application of the law by the judiciary.