KOTA BARU: The judiciary does not mind criticisms against it but will not tolerate any insults or arguments that are not based on facts, said Chief Justice Tun Ariffin Zakaria.
“If they (the critics) go overboard we can institute contempt charges against them,” he said, adding that unlike the executive and the legislature, the judiciary cannot react to criticisms at its whims and fancies but only through sound judgment.
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