Time to decriminalise defamation, says SC
India, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Monday observed that it is time defamation should be decriminalised as it stayed a trial proceeding against news portal, The Wire, on a complaint filed by former JNU professor Amita Singh over a news report alleging that she submitted a dossier on an alleged sex racket in the varsity. A bench of justices MM Sundresh and SC Sharma said, "Time has come to decriminalise section 499 of the IPC." Issuing notice on a petition filed by the portal owner Foundation for Independent Journalism, the bench ordered stay on the trial. P12...
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