article_snippet: (CNN)India's highest court has reversed a controversial law that gave the authorities sweeping powers to arrest and potentially jail people for comments posted on social networks and other Internet platforms.
article_snippet: India's cyber laws have ignited a furious debate about curbs on freedom of speech in recent years.  
article_snippet: In 2012, a university professor was arrested for circulating a cartoon that poked fun at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
article_snippet: The cartoon, which was a parody of a scene in a popular Indian movie, went viral on social media.
article_snippet: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was charged with a range of offenses including defamation, insulting a woman and sending offensive messages from a computer.
article_snippet: Mahapatra called the charges a misuse of the law "in the name of surveillance, to curb democratic rights, freedom of speech and human rights of common people.