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Let's curb misuse of a legal relic that elevates the mob over

Tharoor's piece revisits Section 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which criminalises deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings, arguing that its cognisable, non-bailable design lets any complainant trigger the machinery of arrest regardless of whether courts later find malice, citing Penguin India's 2014 pulping of Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus" as the starkest example of resulting self-censorship.