The Supreme Court on Monday (September 22) stated that the time has come to decriminalise the offence of defamation. The remark was made by the bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma during the hearing of a petition that challenged the summons issued to online news portal The Wire .

The summons was issued to The Wire in relation to a defamation case filed by former professor Amita Singh of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), reported the Bar and Bench .

"I think time has come to decriminalise all this…," said Justice Sundresh as quoted in the report.

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