Defamation law abused, should be re-examined: Arvind Kejriwal to SC

There is a need to decriminalise penal provision for defamation and the “colonial law”, which has been inevitably abused, needs to be re-examined rigorously, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Toeing identical line adopted by BJP’sSubramanian Swamy and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi who have also challenged constitutional validity of sections 499 and 500 of the IPC, the Aam Aadmi Party leader told a bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant that there are several grounds to scrap them as these provisions violated Articles 14, 19(1)(a)(g) and 21 of the Constitution.
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