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Assertion (A): The Supreme Court is a Court of Record. Reason (R): Once a court is made a Court of Record, its power to punish for its contempt necessarily follows from that position.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

  3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.

  4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
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Explanation

 A Court of Record is a court the records of which are admitted to be of evidentiary value and they are not to be questioned when they are produced before any court. The court shall have the power to punish for contempt of itself. As a matter of fact, once you make a court a court of record by statute, the power to punish for contempt necessarily follows.

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