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Freedom of speech in India is slipping down a slippery slope -Kalpana Sharma

-Newslaundry.com Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta faces arrest for an article on the Adani Group, comedian Munawar Faruqui languishes in jail. The good news we were all waiting for in these bleak times came with India’s sensational win in the cricket test series against Australia in Brisbane on January 19. But even as we celebrated good times for Indian cricket, the bad times for Indian journalism and freedom of speech and expression continued. On the very day we celebrated India’s cricket victory, a court in Kutch, Gujarat issued a non-bailable warrant against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. He was reportedly charged under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code relating to defamation. Other journalists, most notably in Kashmir, continue to face arrest and harassment and have been charged under various laws. So why should we take note of this particular warrant against Guha Thakurta? As this piece in Newslaundry explains, Guha Thakurta had been slapped with a defamation suit by the Adani Group for an article he wrote in Economic and Political Weekly in 2017 alleging that the Adani Group had benefited to the tune of Rs 500 crore because the Modi government had altered special economic zone rules. Please click here to read more.