Karan Thapar | Sedition: Time for SC to enforce its own rulings Published Jun 11, 2021, 12:11 am IST Updated Jun 11, 2021, 12:11 am IST 96 per cent of sedition cases for criticising politicians and governments over the last decade were registered after 2014 What we need is meticulous and unfailing enforcement of what the court had laid down as the law of sedition, and not a fresh definition. Perhaps that’s what Justice Chandrachud meant, but it’s not what he said. (Photo:PTI) “It is time to define the limits of sedition”, said Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of the Supreme Court on June 1, and his comment was received with considerable applause. I’m afraid it left me puzzled. The Supreme Court did that nearly 60 years ago in the 1962 Kedar Nath Singh case. What we need is meticulous and unfailing enforcement of what the court had laid down as the law of sedition, and not a fresh definition. Perhaps that’s what Justice Chandrachud meant, but it’s not what he said.