bring the authority or administration of law into disrespect or disregard or to interfere with or prejudice litigant or the witness

In a decision in Ram Utar Shukla v. Arvind Shukla 1995 Supp. (2) SCC 130, the Supreme Court has examined this aspect in a great detail and observed:

...Oswald's classic book Contempt of Court states that "to speak generally contempt of Court may be said to be constituted by any conduct that tends to bring the authority or administration of law into disrespect or disregard or to interfere with or prejudice litigant or the witness duriny the litigation". C.J. Miller in his Contempt of Court, 2nd Reprint Edn., 1993, has stated at p.3 that English Law has long recognised that a criminal contempt may be committed by publishing matter or "indulging in conduct which creates a serious risk or prejudice to the full trial of particular criminal or civil proceedings, whether through an effect upon the parties, the witness, or the tribunal itself." The Law of Contempt by Anthony Arlidge and David Eady, 1982 Edn., commenting on Contempt of Court Act, 1981 at p. 151, stated that "any conduct calculated to interfere with the administration of justice was a contempt". Calculated means no more than tending to....