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The Patna High Court while providing important clarifications regarding assessments conducted under , of the Income Tax Act, 1961, emphasized that such assessments must not be arbitrary and should...

Justice Bibhas Ranjan De in an order passed on August 3, noted that the prosecution failed to adduce any material on record, which could attract any offence under Section 153A (promoting communal enmity) of the IPC.

On July 31, Chetan Singh shot dead his senior officer Tikaram Meena and three Muslim passengers on the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Express. | Mumbai news

Days after constable Chetan Singh was charged with murder and provisions of Arms Act, on Monday Borivali Government Railway Police added Section 153A (promoting enmity) to the FIR.

Over 300 people have been booked for allegedly raising provocative slogans during a march in northern Kerala district, prompting their expulsion from the organisation.

To invoke Section 153A of the IPC, the statements must be "judged on the basis of what reasonable and strong-minded persons will think" and not on the basis of the "views of hypersensitive persons who smell danger in every hostile point of view".

The Court said that law should not be used as a tool to stifle dissent and intimidate people from expressing their opinion.

Another view expressed by courts on this matter is that the assessment under 153A should be confined to incriminating evidence.

The Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate had earlier transferred the case, involving Srijato Bandyapadhyay's poem that allegedly hurt Hindu sentiments, to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detective Department)

Rajasthan High Court granted interim protection from arrest to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in a case registered against him under Section 153A of the IPC for promoting enmity between religious groups.