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Source:-https://indianexpress.com The Delhi Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court’s decision to seek higher judicial opinion on whether it has jurisdiction to hear the defamation suit by former Union minister M J Akbar against journalist Priya Ramani cites an order under which the court was set up in 2018 to try pending criminal cases or offences “against”

Source: dailypioneer.com Based on observation mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court of India refused to appreciate any judicial pronouncement of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to criminalisation of defamation and its effect on freedom of speech.  The Court gave no reasoning as to why relevant U.S. Supreme Court judgements, related to the matter being adjudicated, could