The Crime of Blasphemy: A Short legal perspective

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Blasphemy is one of the most abused laws when it comes to suppressing the voice of minorities, rationalists as well as scientists and often comes under a rain of questions over its legality in the present modern establishments of the world. While blasphemy is often regarded as a reasonable restriction over the Freedom of Speech and Expression, it is also regarded as a hindrance in the development of a scientific temper among people and also a methodology of imposing the religious beliefs and virtues of one community over other. In this modern world, where Freedom of Speech and Religion are widely considered as a fundamental and human rights, India despite being a pluralist country with an incomparable diversity in its population, has a vast ocean of varied conflicting opinions on the controversial Section 295- A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 which is a law against blasphemy under the guise of Hate speech...