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IT’S TIME TO DECRIMINALISE DEFAMATION: SC
The New Indian Express Kollam
|September 23, 2025
THE Supreme Court on Monday said that the time has come to decriminalise defamation.
A bench of justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing a plea of online news portal The Wire seeking to quash summons in a defamation case filed by a former professor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
“I think the time has come to decriminalise all this (defamation cases). How long will you go on dragging these cases?” Justice M M Sundresh remarked.
After hearing the petition filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, which runs The Wire, the bench issued notice to professor Amita Singh and sought her reply.
This story is from the September 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kollam.
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