The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed astonishment that the colonial-era sedition law had not been repealed yet and prodded the Centre to scrap it, indicating it would otherwise go on to decide the provision’s constitutional validity. Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana appeared to endorse the allegation by the government’s critics that the provision was being increasingly misused to silence dissent. “If some party doesn’t want to hear the voice of other party, they may use this type of law and implicate other people.” Advertisement Justice Ramana underlined that the Narendra Modi government had repealed several archaic laws (about 200) and wondered why the sedition law had survived.