13.4. Punishment in case of breach of privilege or contempt of the House

The house can ensure attendance of the offending person. The punishment may take the form of admonition, reprimand or imprisonment. For instance, in 2008, an editor of an Urdu weekly referred to the deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha as a “coward” attributing motives to a decision taken by him. The privileges committee held the editor guilty of breach of privilege.