Important SC | HC judgements

* SC has asked parliament to frame a law on Fake news spread on Social media.

India already have many regualtion such as Section 66 of IT act 2000, civil n Criminal case in defamation and IPC.

* Hate Crime - SC - tahseen poonawala v/s union of India - SC has 11 points Prescription for preventive remidial N punitive measure N asked parliament to legislate a law on it.

* Maru Ram vs union of India 1980, prez can't decide on pardoning of any sentence on his own n have to take central govt suggestion which is binding on prez.

* Epuru sudhakar vs Ors 2006 - any malafide decision taken by prez n governor can b Challenged in court.

* Section 124A of IPC in 1870, by the British. It was used against freedom fighter n first one was Bal gangadhar tilak who convicted under this law in 1897.

In 1962, SC in kedar nath Singh vs state of Bihar held the constitutionality of 124a act bt limited it's scope of differentiating the very strong speech or vigorous speech in order to cause disturbance in the date.

1995, the Supreme Court, in Balwant Singh v State of Punjab, held that mere sloganeering which evoked no public response did not amount to sedition.

* Shirur mutt case 1954 - Doctrine of essentiality by 7 judge bench

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