India's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that candidates for political office cannot appeal to voters on the basis of religion, caste, community or language, arguing that India's Constitution enshrines its elections as fundamentally secular.
A majority of four justices ruled that elections won on religious- or caste-based appeals by candidates or their proxies could be declared null and void.
Three justices, in a dissent, argued that such topics were constitutionally protected free speech.
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