Supreme Court judge says it’s high time to decriminalise defamation

The remark mirrors the apex court’s anxiety over the ramped-up use of the criminal defamation law, and reopens the question as to whether ‘defamation of any person by a private person can be treated as a ‘crime’, for it does not subserve any public interest’

​The remark mirrors the apex court’s anxiety over the ramped-up use of the criminal defamation law, and reopens the question as to whether ‘defamation of any person by a private person can be treated as a ‘crime’, for it does not subserve any public interest’