LIFE INSURANCE CORPN. OF INDIA AND ORS. ETC. vs PROF. MANUBHAI D. SHAH ETC. ETC.

The Supreme Court held that the refusal of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) to publish the Executive Trustee's rejoinder in its in-house magazine violated Article 14 and Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of speech and expression. The Court emphasized that the right to express views includes the freedom to circulate and propagate those views through electronic media, subject to reasonable restrictions under Article 19(2). The Court ruled that the grounds for refusal were arbitrary and that LIC, as a state entity, must justify any refusal to publish content that contributes to public discourse.