The top court made an observation while hearing a case involving online publication The Wire over a 2016 article.

The Supreme Court on Monday sparked renewed debate on India's colonial-era criminal defamation laws, as it agreed to hear pleas filed by news portal seeking to quash summons in a defamation case filed by former JNU professor Amita Singh.

During the hearing, a bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma said that the time has come to decriminalise the defamation law, Live Law reported .

"I think the time has come to decriminalise all this," Justice Sundresh orally commented while agreeing to issue notice on the matter.

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