 bill no  90 of  2009 the prevention of insults to national honour (amendment) bill, 2009 byshri jp agarwal, mp a billfurther to amend the prevention of insults to national honour act, 1971be it enacted by parliament in the sixtieth year of the republic of india as follows:—69 of 1971insertion of new section 42 after section 3a of the prevention of insults to national honour act, 1971, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—5"4 whoever intentionally passes disparaging and insulting remarks in any public place or public view against any freedom fighter or publishes or causes to be published such remarks in a book or through press or any other media by distorting the real facts, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with bothpunishment for passing disparaging and insulting remarks against freedom fightersexplanation— for the purpose of this section, the expression "freedom fighter"means any leader or martyr or patriot, who inspired the national struggle for freedom of the country"10 statement of objects and reasonsfreedom fighters have made a major contribution to the freedom of our country it was because of their struggle that we are citizens of an independent india today disrespectful and highly derogatory comments and false statements are being made about freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifices by putting their lives at stake and inspired the nation to attain freedomsome authors are presenting distorted facts about freedom fighters in books brought out by the government and private publishers there are many authors who do not have adequate and authentic information about freedom fighters and they write factually incorrect articles on them in private publications thus, they are creating confusion by presenting distorted facts about freedom fighters, hurting the feelings of the ordinary citizens of the country and the families of freedom fighters this causes disrespect and insult not only to the freedom fighters, but also to the nationit is, therefore, proposed to amend the prevention of insults to national honour act,1971 and extend its scope so that such acts of criticising the freedom fighters may be brought within its purviewhence this billnew delhi;jp agarwaljuly 20, 2009 lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the prevention of insults to national honour act, 1971————(shri jp agarwal, mp)gmgipmrnd—4003ls(s5)—27-10-2009