May 26, 2020 00: 02 IST.
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May 26, 2020 00: 40 IST.
May 26, 2020 00: 02 IST.
Upgraded:.
May 26, 2020 00: 40 IST.
Careless filing of criminal character assassination cases against journalism must end
A function of public life in Tamil Nadu in the last three years has actually been the indiscriminate institution of criminal defamation proceedings against Opposition leaders and the media. The verdict of Justice Abdul Quddhose, quashing a series of disparagement grievances filed since 2011-12, is amazing for using a set of concepts that would firmly hinder the rash and ill-advised resort to State-funded prosecution on behalf of public servants. The statutory difference in between libeling a public servant as a person and as the State itself being libelled has to be