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Time has come to decriminalise defamation: SC
Hindustan Times Delhi
|September 23, 2025
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 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Amita Singh over a news report alleging that she submitted a dossier on an alleged sex racket in the University.
A bench of justices MM Sundresh and SC Sharma said, "Time has come to decriminalise section 499 of the Indian Penal Code."
Defamation is punishable under this provision.
Issuing notice on a petition filed by the portal owner Foundation for Independent Journalism, the bench ordered stay on the trial proceedings.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal appearing for the foundation said, "This issue is pending before this court in a petition filed by Rahul Gandhi.
Sibal was referring to a petition filed by the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha challenging the summoning orders against him in a defamation case over his remarks against VD Savarkar.
The court allowed the present petition to be tagged with the pending matters.
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