In Shukla’s case, Naved says, she’s saying people should be killed for carrying out a protest. “If in a democracy, you are advocating for people to be shot for protesting publicly, then you are militating against people’s civil liberties.” He adds that when determining the criminal test of incitement, one needs to look at context and intent. “A person screaming in their drawing room saying ‘kill so and so’ may not amount to criminal speech. However, Twitter is a public platform where the intent is to communicate the idea publically. And the idea behind publically communicating it is to have some action consequent to it. Given her designation and her association with Lok Sabha TV, her words carry more weight. Given the people in our country are losing lives because of incendiary speech, her tweet could amount to an offence.”