The Supreme Court again extended its interim protection to four members of the Editors Guild of India in the FIRs lodged over their fact-finding report, and said the “entire complaint is the government’s counter-narrative”, Livelaw reported.
A bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud extended the protection by two weeks. It said that while the report “may be right or wrong”, it was a matter of “free speech”. The bench added that making a “false statement in an article is not an offence under Section 153A”, that involves promoting enmity between different groups.
