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A private complaint has been filed seeking judicial cognizance against Kangana Ranaut for her allegedly seditious statements against the Sikh community and about the Indian Independence struggle.
India News: NEW DELHI: Between 2015 and 2019, as many as 279 sedition cases were registered under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), though only nine pe.
The sedition law needs to be read down further given its wide use
So, what does disaffection mean? Is it, as the dictionary has it, the loss or absence of affection for something or someone? Or is it something less of an estrangement with something one was fond of, and more of an engagement with something one has grown to detest? Instead of getting waylaid in the jalebi twists of Sunday semantics, its best to find out what the levelheaded men of law have to say.
Sikha Sarma GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court, while observing that Assamese writer Sikha Sarma had expressed her personal views on the use of the term ‘Swahid/martyr’, granted bail to the 48-year-old writer, who was arrested here on April 6 on charges of sedition and other offences for an alleged Facebook post on security forces after 22 personnel were killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh. According to the FIR, Sarma, known to be vocal on social media, in an FB post on April 5 "maligned and disregarded the sacrifice of martyrs by urging the ‘media’ not to generate public sentime...