Thin line between free speech and contempt, says SC

NEWDELHI:THE Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a 2009 contempt petition against lawyer Prashant Bhushan after holding in-camera proceedings, at the end of which Bhushan said his remarks alleging that former chief justices of India had been corrupt did not refer to financial wrongdoing but lack of propriety. “You have stood for freedom of speech and expression but it may be the case that you might have crossed the thin line of contempt,” a bench of justices Arun Mishra, BR Gavai, and Krishna Murari said.