2. Definitions .-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a)“contempt of court ” means civil contempt or criminal contempt; (b)“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; (c)“criminal contempt ” means the p ublication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs,
or by visible representation s, 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 a dministration of
justice in any other manner; (d)“High Court ” means the High Court for a State or a Union territory, and includes the court of
the Judicial Commissioner in any Union territory.