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Section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was enacted in 1927 [4] by the British Parliament. A book, Rangila Rasul, was published in 1927. The book concerned the marriages and sex life of Muhammad. On the basis of a complaint, the publisher was arrested but later acquitted in April 1929 because there was no law against insult to religion.
A law punishing the utterances deliberately tending to hurt the religious feelings of any class has been held to be valid as it is a reasonable restriction aimed to maintaining the public order. [19] It is also necessary that there must be a reasonable nexus between the restriction imposed and the achievement of public order.
India prohibits hate speech by several sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and by other laws which put limitations on the freedom of expression. Section 95 of the Code of Criminal Procedure gives the government the right to declare certain publications “forfeited” if the “publication ... appears to the State ...
Non-Muslim nations that do not have blasphemy laws, have pointed to abuses of blasphemy laws in Islamic nations, and have disagreed. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Notwithstanding, controversies raised in the non-Muslim world, especially over depictions of Muhammad , questioning issues relating to the religious offense to minorities in secular countries.
On 26 November 2023, Nongthombam Biren Singh, the then Chief Minister of the Government of Manipur, officially released the diglot edition of the Constitution of India, in the Meetei Mayek (Meitei for 'Meitei writing system') in Manipuri language and English, [134] [135] [136] at the Cabinet hall of the CM Secretariat in Imphal, [137] as part ...
The draft of the Indian Penal Code was prepared by the First Law Commission, chaired by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1834 and was submitted to Governor-General of India Council in 1835. Based on a simplified codification of the law of England at the time, elements were also derived from the Napoleonic Code and Edward Livingston 's Louisiana ...
The council passed all-India laws as well as an Indian Law Commission. The progenitor of this codification was a British lawyer by the name of Thomas Macaulay who became the first Law Member, the head of the All-India Legislative Council, and the first head of the Law Commission. [16]
C. A. Rajendran v. Union of India AIR 1965 SC 507; Chamaraja v. Mysore AIR 1967 Mys 21; Barium Chemicals Ltd. v. Company Law Board AIR 1967 SC 295; P. Rajendran v. State of Madras AIR 1968 SC 1012; Triloki Nath v. The state of Jammu and Kashmir AIR 1969 SC 1; State of Punjab v. Hira Lal 1970(3) SCC 567; State of A.P. v. U.S.V. Balram AIR 1972 ...