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A woman, who faced prosecution for defamation for making allegations against her father-in-law in a domestic violence case, has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of the law’s penal provisions.
Petitioner Tina Ahuja questioned the Constitutional validity of Section 199 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) and Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), mandating two-year jail on conviction, for being excessive, arbitrary, unreasonable and violative of the right to freedom speech and expression.
A vacation bench presided over by Justice R K Agrawal stayed the summons issued against Tina by a Delhi court on a complaint filed by her father-in-law Subhash Ahuja.
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