{"id":286419,"date":"2024-03-09T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=286419"},"modified":"2024-03-09T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:08:06","slug":"critique-isnt-crime-cops-get-another-lesson-on-basics-of-democracy-from-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/critique-isnt-crime-cops-get-another-lesson-on-basics-of-democracy-from-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique Isn&#8217;t Crime: Cops get another lesson on basics of democracy from SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post Critique Isn&#8217;t Crime has been created, based on the article \u201c<strong>Critique Isn&#8217;t Crime: Cops get another lesson on basics of democracy from SC<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201c<strong>Times of India<\/strong>\u201d on 9th March 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus Topic:<\/strong> GS Paper 2 &#8211; Indian Polity &#8211; Basic Structure<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The article discusses how the Indian Supreme Court overturned a case where someone was charged for expressing dissenting views on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Maharashtra, a person faced legal charges for calling the removal of Article 370 a &#8220;black day&#8221; in a WhatsApp group. They also wished Pakistan on its Independence Day. It led to an FIR and Bombay HC dismissed a writ petition filed by the accused.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What did the Supreme Court say?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court of India quashed an FIR against a person for expressing dissenting views on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that criticizing government policies, like the abrogation of Article 370, is part of democratic dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The Court emphasized that such <strong>dissent is not grounds for accusations of creating enmity or disharmony.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It highlighted the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, pointing out the <strong>problem with unreasonable restrictions and arbitrary arrests in India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Court criticized the police, suggesting they <strong>need education on free speech rights<\/strong>, and that <strong>judgment standards should be based on reasonable minds, not those easily offended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examine the rationale behind the Indian Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to quash the FIR against the individual for expressing dissenting views on WhatsApp, particularly in relation to the criticism of government policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post Critique Isn&#8217;t Crime has been created, based on the article \u201cCritique Isn&#8217;t Crime: Cops get another lesson on basics of democracy from SC\u201d published in \u201cTimes of India\u201d on 9th March 2024. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 &#8211; Indian Polity &#8211; Basic Structure News: The article discusses how the Indian Supreme&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/critique-isnt-crime-cops-get-another-lesson-on-basics-of-democracy-from-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critique Isn&#8217;t Crime: Cops get another lesson on basics of democracy from SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1234],"tags":[212,225,10496],"class_list":["post-286419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-polity","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}