ULTIMATELY SUPREME COURT HAS MOSTLY RULED AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTS TO RESTRICT THE RIGHT TO SPEECH AND EXPRESSION AND ARTISTIC CREATIVITY.

It is assured by the Constitution of India in favor of citizens of country  for citizens right of free speech and expression under article 19(1) (a) by reasonable restrictions, yet supreme Court favoured free speech by striking down section 66A of the information technology Act, inserted by the UPA government through an amendment in 2009 to curb offensive electronic communications, as violative of free speech as the restraint did not fall within the article 19(2) restrictions. Further the supreme Court has ruled that voter's free speech and expression included their right to know the credentials of candidates, thus mandating them to declare their criminal antecedents, assets and educational qualifications. Court have also held that a restriction in order to be reasonable must be narrowly tailored or narrowly interpreted so as to a bridge or restrict only , what is absolutely necessary. As for the press is concerned it has a right of the free propagation and free circulation without any previous restraint on publication , if a law were to single out the press for laying down prohibitive burdens on it that would restrict the circulation, penalise its freedom of choice as to personnel, prevent newspapers from being started and compel the press to government aid, this would violate article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution and would fall outside the protection afforded by article 19(2) . Emergency was the exemption to supreme Court approach to free speech, mercifully, Supreme Court redeemed itself by expanding the ambit of fundamental rights through Maneka Gandhi judgement (1978) . Ultimately the supreme Court's decision will determine the scope of free speech or that of the reasonable restrictions, in case of controversial issues on the captioned subject. There can be little doubt that the imposition of pre censorship on a journal is restriction on the liberty of the press which is an essential part of the right to freedom of speech and expression declared by article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution, so related to news, photographs or cartoons relating to Pakistan, however supreme Court has mostly ruled against government attempts to restrict this right of the citizens of country , so issued right from 1950 .