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BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 CHAPTER XVIII‑ DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE 130. Contempt of Adalat.‑‑‑(1) A person shall be guilty of contempt of an Adalat if be, without lawful excuse‑‑‑ (a) offers any insult to the Adalat or any member thereof while the Adalat is functioning as such ; or (b) causes any interruption in the proceedings of the Adalat ; (c) fails to produce or deliver a document when ordered by the Adalat to do so ; or (d) refuses to answer any question of the Adalat he is bound to answer ; (e) refuses to take oath or to state the truth or to sign any statement made by him when required by the Adalat to do so. (2) The Adalat may without any complaint having been made to it, forthwith try any person for contempt and sentence him to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees. (3) In offences of the nature mention in sections 172, 173, 174 and 202 of the Pakistan Penal Code, in so far as they are committed in respect of the proceedings of an Adalat, the Adalat may through its Chairman lodge a complaint in writing to Magistrate in the District competent to try such offences.