The reference of “curbing free speech of public functionaries” to a Constitution bench was prompted by the statement of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan who, as urban development minister in UP government, had termed the horrific 2016 gang-rape incident on Noida-Saharanpur Highway as an “opposition conspiracy” because the “elections were near, and that the desperate opposition could stoop to any level to defame the government”.
from Times of India https://ift.tt/BCFtX9T
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