The Mahatma Exception: Your freedom of expression stops at Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was obviously a unique figure in India’s history.
But it now turns out that he is in a class of his own even in the eyes of the law. Justice might be blind and everyone, high or low, technically equal before it, but there is apparently the Mahatma Exception.
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that the use of profane language against Gandhi is unacceptable even if it is done in the name of satire or art.
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