The Supreme Court’s observation that it may be time to decriminalise defamation is loaded with possibilities, as courts across the country face a slew of such cases. A two-judge bench led by Justice MM Sundresh, and also comprising Justice SC Sharma, said this as it issued notice to a Jawaharlal Nehru University professor in the matter of a case against a news portal. The professor had filed the defamation suit in 2016 against an article that had alleged that the academic, along with a group of professors, had compiled a dossier that claimed that JNU was a ‘den of organised sex rackets’ and other wrongdoings. This is the second round of litigation in the case. The top court asked........

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