Centre today told the Supreme Court that setting aside the penal defamation laws will lead to anarchy. Pitching for its retention in the statute book, the government said, no orderly society can have a situation where everybody can say anything against anybody. <br/><br/>Arguing against a batch of petitions, including the one filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a bench of justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant that the penal laws have stood the test of time and should not be set aside.