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The central government Thursday told the Supreme Court that for an orderly civil society, the penal provision of criminal defamation was integral to the reasonable restriction imposed by the constitution on the right to freedom of speech and expression it guaranteed.
Defending the Indian Penal Code’s sections 499 and 500 spelling out punishment for criminal defamation, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant that the constitution framers have made them integral to constitution’s Aaticle 19(2) by way of reasonable restrictions and that being so, they were immune to any challenge.
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