It is important that checks and balances are placed to ensure that those who breach the law and abuse it are restrained alike from doing so. The Supreme Court’s suggestion to decriminalise defamation is a right first step in a long journey for Indian society to transform itself into a civilised and democratised one. The very existence of the defamation law in the statute book is to ensure protection of reputation. Courts should not allow the law to be used as a tool to needlessly harass people, it had stated then. Campaigns are launched all over country to file criminal defamation cases against political leaders and news organisations if they speak against the powers-that-be.