NIRMALKUMAR MOHANDOSS India is a common law country and under Article 215 of the Constitution, a High Court is a Court of record and have the powers to punish contempt of itself. According to Section 2(b) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, ‘ “civil contempt” means 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.’ Moreover, Section 12 of the Act provides for the ‘punishment

The Madras High Court has refused to initiate contempt action against Suriya. Here is an analysis of the entire sequence of events.