This morning, India’s Supreme Court ruled that using “indecent language” to discuss “historically respected personalities” is punishable by up to 2 years in jail and a fine of ₹2,000.
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NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of a bank employee, who had challenged framing of charges against him for publishing an allegedly "vulgar and obscene" poem on Mahatma Gandhi in 1994 in an in-house magazine of which he was an editor.
