6.5. Supreme Court as a court of record (Article 129)

It has two powers as a Court of Record:

a) The judgments, proceedings and acts of the Supreme Court are recorded as memory and testimony. These records are recognized as legal precedents and references. These records can be admitted as evidences and cannot be questioned when produced before any court.

b) It has power to punish for contempt of court, either with simple imprisonment for a term upto six months or with fine up to 2000 or with both. It can punish for contempt not only of itself but also of high courts, subordinate courts and tribunals in the entire country. There can be civil or criminal contempt. Civil contempt means willful disobedience to any judgment, order, writ or other process of court or willful breach of undertaking given to the court. Criminal contempt means the publication of any matter or doing any act, which scandalizes or lowers the authority of a court; prejudices or interferes with due course of judicial proceeding; obstructs or interferes the administration of justice in any manner.