Discussion
First Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951 brought additional 3 new grounds of restriction upon the freedom of speech in India.
Answer: A
The three grounds are friendly relations with foreign States, public order and incitement to an offence.
The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, after decisions such as Romesh Thappar, rewrote Article 19(2) to add friendly relations with foreign States, public order and incitement to an offence as grounds for reasonable restrictions on free speech. It also made the restrictions 'reasonable'.
Decency or morality, contempt of court, defamation and the security of the State were already in the original Article 19(2), so every other option includes at least one original ground.
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