(b) otherwise than under the orders of the Chief Justice of the High Court, the Chief Justice
of Pakistan, the Supreme Judicial Council, the Federal Government or the Provincial
Government, as the case may be.
7. Procedure for Supreme Court and High Court.—(1) Whenever it appears to the Supreme
Court or a High Court that there is sufficient ground for believing that a person has committed
contempt of court and that it is necessary in the interest of effective administration of justice to
proceed against him, it shall make an order in writing to that effect setting forth the substance of the
charge against the accuse , and, unless he is present in court, shall require by means of an appropriate
process that he appears or be brought before it to answer the charge.
(2) The court shall inform the accused of the ground on which he is charged with contempt of
court and call upon to show cause why he should not be punished.
(3) The court, after holding such inquiry and taking such evidence as it deems necessary or is
produced by the accused in his own defence and after hearing the accused and such other person as it
deems fit, shall give a decision in the case:
Provided that, in any such proceedings, before the Supreme Court or High Court, any finding
given in its own proceedings, by the Supreme Judicial Council about the nature of an averment made
before it, that is relevant to the requirements of clause (vi) of the proviso to section 3, shall be
conclusive evidence of the nature of such averment.
(4) If contempt of court is committed in the view or presence of the court, the court may cause
the offender to be detained in custody and, at any time before the rising of the court on the same day,
may proceed against him in the manner provided for in the preceding subsections.
(5) If any case referred to in subsection (4) cannot be finally dispose of on the same day, the
court shall order the release of the offender from custody either on bail or on his own bond.
8. Transfer of proceedings for reasons personal to the judge.—(1) Where, in a case in which a
judge has made an order under subsection (1) of section 7, not being a case referred to in subsection
(4) of that section, the allege contempt of court involves scandalization personal to such judge and is
not scandalization of the court as a whole or of all the judges of the court, judge shall forward the
record of the case and such comments, if any, as he deems fit to make, to the Chief Justice of the
court.
(2) On receipt of the papers, mentioned in subsection (1), the Chief Justice, after inviting, if he
deems fit, further comments, if any, from the judge first taking of the offence and making such inquiry
in such manner as he deems fit, shall pass orders specifying which one of the following shall hear the
case—
(a) another judge, which if the Chief Justice so orders, may be the Chief Justice; or
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