MP Chandra Shekhar Aazad receives death threat on WhatsApp; FIR lodged
Bijnor (PTI): A case has been registered after a death threat was allegedly sent via WhatsApp to Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) president Chandra Shekhar Aazad, police said here on Wednesday.
According to Nagina Station House Officer (SHO) Tejpal Singh, party worker Sheikh Parvez submitted a written complaint stating that a message which threatened to kill Chandrashekhar within 10 days was received on the party's helpline WhatsApp number.
Aazad is also a member of the Lok Sabha from Nagina in Uttar Pradesh.
Based on the complaint, an FIR has been lodged against an unknown person under relevant legal sections and an investigation has been initiated, Singh said.
Parvez, the district coordinator of the party's Muslim Brotherhood Committee and the complainant, said the threat poses a serious risk to the life of the party's national president and sitting MP.
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Time has come to decriminalise defamation law: Supreme Court
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has observed that the time has come to decriminalise the defamation law, while agreeing to examine a plea by the Foundation for Independent Journalism seeking to quash the summons issued to it in a criminal defamation case.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma issued notice to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Amita Singh.
The apex court passed the remark while hearing the plea of the organisation, which runs The Wire news portal, and its political affairs editor Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta.
"I think time has come to decriminalise all this..." Justice Sundresh observed orally.
The top court was hearing a plea challenging a trial court order issuing summons to them in a defamation case filed by the former JNU professor over the publication of the dossier.
The complainant had argued before the lower court that the accused people had launched a hate campaign against her to malign her reputation.
This is the second round of litigation on the alleged defamatory report published by the portal.
The Delhi High Court in 2023 had quashed the summons issued to them. The top court, however, reversed the order and remanded the matter for fresh consideration before the trial court.
The trial court again issued a summons, and the high court also upheld it.
