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'Such a proposition runs counter to the freedoms and rights guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution,' the court said while framing charges against the accused in a UAPA case related to propagating ISIS ideology.
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The Kerala High Court quashed the criminal proceedings against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and 11 other leaders of the CPI(M) in a case alleging unlawful assembly and rioting as part of a 2009 human chain protest.
It is trite that the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the Constitution is not absolute but there is no absolute power to curtail it either.
Is Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy taking a leaf out of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath’s playbook on quelling critics by using the sedition law?
The legal question before the court was whether Exception 2 in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code is against the Constitution