Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 — Section 486: Appeals from convictions in contempt cases

486. Appeals from convictions in contempt cases.__ (1) Any person sentenced by any Court under section 480 or section 485 may, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, appeal to the Court to which decrees or orders made in such Court are ordinarily appealable.

(2)The provisions of Chapter XXXI shall, so far as they are applicable, apply to appeals under this section, and the Appellate Court may alter or reverse the finding, or reduce or reverse the sentence appealed against. an appeal from such conviction by 1[a] Court of Small Causes shall lie to the Court of session for the sessions division within which such Court is situate.

(4)An appeal from such conviction by any officer as Registrar or Sub-Registrar appointed as aforesaid may, when such officer is also Judge of a Civil Court, be made to the Court to which it would, under the preceding portion of this section, be made if such conviction were a decree by such officer in his capacity as such Judge, and in other cases may be made to the District Judge, 2 * * *. 487. Certain Judges and Magistrates not to try offences referred to in section 195 when committed before themselves.__ (1) Except as provided in sections 3[476,] 4[*] 480 and 485, no Judge of a Criminal Court or Magistrate, other than a Judge of a High Court 5[* * *], shall try any person for any offence referred to in section 195, when such offence is committed before himself or in contempt6 of his authority, or is brought under his notice as such Judge or Magistrate in the course of a judicial proceeding. 7

(2)[* * * * * * *] 8 [CHAPTER XXXVI.__ [Of the Maintenance of Wives and Children.] Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981(XXVII of 1981), s. 2 and Second Schedule.

(e)that a prisoner within such limits be removed from one custody to another for the purpose of trial; and

(f)that the body of a defendant within such limits be brought in on the Sheriff’s return of cepi corpus to a writ of attachment. 1 [(1A) The High Court may, by general or special order published in the official Gazette, direct that all or any of its powers specifed in clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1) shall, subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the order, be exercisable also by

(a)a Sessions Judge; or

(b)an Additional Sessions Judge, within the territorial limits of a Session Division.] 2

(2)[The High Court] may, from time to time, frame rules to regulate the procedure in cases under this section. 3 [(3) Nothing in this section applies to persons detained under any law providing for preventive detention.] 4 491A. [Powers of High Court outside the limits of appellate jurisdiction.] Omitted by the Criminal Law (Extinction of Discriminatory Privileges) Act, 1949 (II of 1950), Schedule. PART IX SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS 493. Public Prosecutor may plead in all Courts in cases under his charge Pleaders privately instructed to be under his direction. The Public Prosecutor may appear and plead without any written authority before any Court in which any case of which he has charge is under inquiry, trial or appeal, and if any private person instructs a pleader to prosecute in any Court any person in any such case, the Public Prosecutor shall conduct the prosecution, and the pleader so instructed shall act therein, under his directions.