PoliticsSupreme Court on Legislative Privilege and Free Speech Reference
The Supreme Court disposed of a long-pending reference on legislative privileges versus free speech stemming from a 2003 Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution to arrest The Hindu editors for criticizing then CM Jayalalithaa. The Court left open key legal questions on parliamentary privileges and free speech for future cases. The dispute began after The Hindu reported on Assembly speeches, leading to a resolution accusing the paper of breaching Assembly privilege under Article 194.
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