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Democracy can't treat satire as sedition: Madras HC stays blocking of VHP's X posts
short by Saurav Joshi / on Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
Madras High Court has stayed a Tamil Nadu Police notice directing X to block political posts uploaded by a regional unit of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP). "Democracy can't treat criticism as disorder, satire as sedition, dissent as danger...or opinion as offence," the court said. The right to criticise governments, political actors, and public policies is a constitutional guarantee, it added.
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