https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277644 Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code were upheld as valid restrictions on free speech because criminal defamation falls within Article 19(2), reputation is protected as part of dignity under Article 21, and the offence was treated as neither vague nor arbitrary due to its defined ingredients, Explanations and Exceptions. Section 199 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was also upheld because its requirement of a complaint by the aggrieved person, its special procedure for defamation involving specified public servants, and the related safeguards were held to rest on an intelligible classification and to protect official functioning without unconstitutional discrimination. The challenge to the validity of both provisions failed. en-us Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:38:46 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277644 Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code were upheld as valid restrictions on free speech because criminal defamation falls within Article 19(2), reputation is protected as part of dignity under Article 21, and the offence was treated as neither vague nor arbitrary due to its defined ingredients, Explanations and Exceptions. Section 199 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was also upheld because its requirement of a complaint by the aggrieved person, its special procedure for defamation involving specified public servants, and the related safeguards were held to rest on an intelligible classification and to protect official functioning without unconstitutional discrimination. The challenge to the validity of both provisions failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277644