“The penal provision on defamation (section 499 and 500 of the IPC) should not be used to throttle dissent…the court must step in, if there are continuous efforts to harass persons by filing a number of defamation cases”: SC.Staying the NBW against DMDK chief and actor politician Vijaykanth and his wife Premlatha in a defamation case, the Supreme Court today remarked that defamation...
