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(a) Constitution of Pakistan (1973)-------- Art, 204 --- Supreme Court Rules, 1980, O. XXVII R.I-Contempt of Court Act (LXIV of 1976), Ss.3 & - 7 --- Contempt of Court --- Accused, in a speech, delivered at a well-attended meeting of members of an international club said that "the High Court and Supreme Court Judges are on payroll of drug Mafia"-Act of accused prohibiting the publication of his such utterance in print would not make him directly responsible for what appeared in the Press. (b) Constitution of Pakistan (1973). ---- Art- 204 --- Supreme Court Rules, 1980, O. XXVII, R.I --- Contempt of Court Act (LXIV of 1976), S.3 --- Accused, in a speech delivered at a well-attended meeting of members of an international club said that "the High Court and Supreme Court Judges are on payroll of drug mafia"--- Utterances of accused which were published in newspaper, held, fell within the express words of S.3, Contempt of Court Act, 1976. Sir Edward Snelson v. The Judges of the High Court of West Pakistan and another PLD 1961 SC 237; Saadat Khialy, Staff Reporter ("Kohistan" Daily) and others v. The State and another (PLD 1962 SC 457 and Miller's Contempt of Court; R. v. Gray (1900) 3 All ER 59 ref. (c) Constitution of Pakistan (1973)-- ---- Art. 204 --- Supreme Court Rules, 1980, O.XXVII, R.I --- Contempt of Court Act (LXIV of 1976), S.7 --- Accused, in a speech delivered at a well-attended meeting of members of an international club stated that "the High Court and Supreme Court Judges are on payroll of drug mafia" which was published in newspaper--- Such utterances of accused amounted to scandalization of Court. (d) Constitution of Pakistan (1973)-- ---- Art. 204 --- Supreme court Rules, 1980, O.XVII, R.I --- Contempt of Court Act (LXIV of 1976), S.7 --- Contempt of Court categorised and defined. Any act done for writing published, calculated to bring the Court or a Judge of the Court into contempt or to lessen his authority, is a contempt of Court. That is one class of contempt. Another class is any act done, or writing published, calculated to obstruct or interfere with the due course of justice, or the lawful process of the Court. That is another class of…

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