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A tribute to the recently deceased Ranajit Guha, one of the most magnificent historians of modern India who will be remembered for pioneering what came to be known as subaltern studies

Mumbai: The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it was at an advanced consultation stage on re-examining the colonial era sedition law. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala deferred the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the sedition law, under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, to the second week

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the sedition law after the Centre said it is at an advanced stage of consultation on reexamining the colonial-era penal provision. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala noted the submission of Attorney General R Venkataramani that the government has

Sedition, which provides a maximum jail term of life under Section 124A of the IPC for creating "disaffection towards the government", was brought into the penal code in 1890, 57 years before Independence.

The bench posted the hearing on the matter in the second week of August

The top court deferred hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the penal provision.

A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala noted the submission of Attorney General R Venkataramani that the government has initiated the process to re-examine section 124A of the Indian Penal Code.

The Supreme Court on Monday deferred hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the sedition law after the Centre said it is at an advanced stage of consultation on reexamining the colonial-era penal provision. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala noted the submission of Attorney General R Venkataramani that the government has initiated the process

Sedition, which provides a maximum jail term of life under Section 124A of the IPC for creating disaffection towards the government, was brought into the penal code in 1890, 57 years before Independence and almost 30 years after the IPC came into being.

While his family finds it hard to hold on to hope, Rehman, an accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy case, believes different communities in India can still find a way to resolve their differences.