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CLASS: XII FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PRE BOARD EXAMINATION I ENGLISH MAX. MARKS: 80 TIME: 3 HOURS GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: 1. The question paper contains 14 pages. 2. The question paper is divided into two parts: Objective (A) and Subjective (B) 3. All questions are compulsory. 4. Separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary. Read these instructions very carefully and follow them. 5. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions. SECTION A OBJECTIVE READING (20 marks) 1. Read the passage given below. 1 Contempt of court, as a concept that seeks to protect judicial institutions from motivated attacks and unwarranted criticism, and as a legal mechanism to punish those who lower its authority, is back in the news in India. 2 Remarks, speeches, illustrations and social media comments made by individuals have on several occasions resulted in accusations of being in contempt of court . These, however, do not always hold and are dismissed by the Attorney General of India, whose prior consent is required for the Supreme Court to initiate criminal contempt action. So what really does the law say about contempt of court? When is one guilty of it? 3 According to the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, contempt of court can either be civil contempt or criminal contempt. Civil contempt means willful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or willful breach of an undertaking given to a court. On the other hand, criminal contempt means the publication whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise of any matter or the doing of any other act whatsoever which: (i) scandalises or tends to scandalise, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court; or (ii) prejudices, or interferes or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or (iii) interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner. 1 of 14
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