Columnist Asks: Where Is The Contempt This piece reads like a level-headed discussion of the issues involved in the case of cartoonist Irfan Khan and three other journalists being sentenced under contempt charges for a story about a retired Supreme Court Chief Justice, a sentence currently suspended awaiting a hearing on the matter in early 2008. Some of those issues include: the fact that it should be more difficult to lower the prestige of the court when it's a retired judge being examined, that this decision indicates truth is no defense against such charges, and the existence of applications of this kind of law against the sources of other criticisms of the court indicates a general suppression of truth could be in the offing.
