Judicial Paternalism and Free Speech in India Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-03-04 eng
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 The Indian Supreme Court has recently decided two cases pertaining to the speech acts of two different individuals—a podcaster and a legislator of the Legislative Council of the State of Bihar. In both cases, the Court chose to reprimand the individuals for their ‘indecent’ and ‘unparliamentary conduct’ and also sanctioned punishments upon them, without any a priori determination of whether their speech acts, in any manner, violated the limits of the right to free speech as guaranteed under the Indian Constitution. The reprimand and the sanction, I argue, emerged from the Court’s false belief that it is tasked to school the citizens on the appropriate and correct ways of using their speech rights. CC BY-SA 4.0 Jain, Anmol Free Speech Indian Supreme Court Indien. Supreme Court Indien. Supreme Court 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/judicial-paternalism-and-free-speech-in-india/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/025d94afb5032746 250304 10.59704/025d94afb5032746 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)