Two daily newspapers, Prothom Alo and Bhorer Kagoj, are facing contempt charges in Bangladesh for running reports on High Court judge's alleged result tampering. According to the Daily Star, "the two dailies carried the reports after an inquiry committee of Chittagong University (CU) unearthed the certificate tampering. "There was nothing in the report that was in contempt of the judiciary," said Dr Kamal Hossain, counsel for the daily Prothom Alo . "While carrying out its duty to inform people, the newspaper carried the report for the public good and all facts are there to support it," he argued on the second day of the hearing of the contempt charges against editors, publishers and reporters of the two dailies yesterday. The court yesterday exempted the respondents from personal appearance before it and adjourned the hearing until January 9."

Source: The Daily Star, through Asia Media