Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 4 · Decided 3 January 2023
Kaushal Kishor v. State of Uttar Pradesh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 4 · [2023] 8 S.C.R. 581
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 113/2016
- Decided
- 3 January 2023
- Bench
- S. ABDUL NAZEER, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, A.S. BOPANNA, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN, B.V. NAGARATHNA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Reference answered
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(a), 19(2), 19, 21
Headnote
Constitution of India - Arts. 19(1)(a) and 19(2) - Are the grounds specified in Article 19(2) in relation to which reasonable restrictions on the right to free speech can be imposed by law, exhaustive, or can restrictions on the right to free speech not found in Article 19(2) by invoking other fundamental rights - Held: The grounds lined up in Art.19(2) for restricting the right to free speech are exhaustive - Under the guise of invoking other fundamental rights or under the guise of two fundamental rights staking a competing
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