The petitioners said they will not press for their prayer seeking to quash and set aside the explanation in IPC sections 499 and 500, which state that, the statement may amount to defamation to impute anything to a deceased person, if the imputation would harm the reputation of that person if living, and is intended hurt feelings of his family or other near relatives.
The Pune trust’s petition says that although IPC sections 499 and 500 deal with defamation, their scope is limited when it comes to historical figures.
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking guidelines to prevent the utterance and unrestricted circulation of derogatory remarks about deceased individuals who.