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Time to decriminalise defamation, says SC

The New Indian Express Chennai

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September 23, 2025

SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY @ New Dethi

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.

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