on 16th march, 2007 bill no iii of  2007 the prevention of insults to national honour (amendment) bill, 2007 a billfurther to amend the prevention of insults to national honour act, 1971be it enacted by parliament in the fifty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—insertion of new section 469 of 1971 2  after section 3a of the prevention of insults to national honour act, 1971 following section shall be inserted, namely:—5"4 whoever uses baseless attributive terms in regard to freedom fighters and makes incorrect statements and derogatory comments about them or publishes or gets published such comments in a book or through press or any other media by distorting the real facts with this motive, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or with fine or with bothpunishment for incorrect statements or derogatory comments, etc about freedom fightersexplanation— for the purposes of this section, the expression "freedom fighters" means a leader or a martyr or a patriot who has inspired people for national struggle for the sake of 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 words and false statements are being made about freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifices putting their lives at stake and inspired the nation to attain freedomsome writers are presenting facts about freedom fighters in a wrong manner in books brought out by the government and private publishers there are many authors who do not have adequate and correct information about freedom fighters and they write factually incorrect articles on them in private publications they are  thus 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 freedom fighters may be brought within its purview and appropriate punishment is prescribed for such insultshence this billjai  parkash  aggarwal———— a billfurther to amend the prevention of insults to national honour act, 1971————(shri jai parkash aggarwal, mp)mgipmrnd—1227 rs—16032007