Exercising jurisdiction under Article 204 of the Constitution or under the provisions of Contempt of Courts Ordinance 2003,

It is expedient to reproduce the nutshell of the judgment reported as Dr. Nazeer Saeed v. Muhammad Javaid and 16 others (PLD 2014 Lahore 660), last in series in this regard:- 

“Upon going through the above cited law and the judgments on the subject, it becomes crystal clear that while exercising jurisdiction under Article 204 of the Constitution or under the provisions of Contempt of Courts Ordinance 2003, the Court can only “PUNISH” the contemnor and no more. Even if, for a while, this is presumed that the Court could look into the vires of an order passed in pursuance to its direction, it can only do the same with the perspective of punishing the contemnor”.

  Part of judgment 

IN THE LAHORE HIGH COURT LAHORE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

I.C.A (Civil) Contempt
31697-17

2017 LHC 2135