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'<i>It is not seditious to have views different from the Govt,</i>' observed the Supreme Court on Wednesday while dismissing a PIL seeking action against former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq A...
In 2019, 9% of the sedition cases pending from previous years and filed in 2019 resulted in closure because the accused were untraceable.
Sedition in India: Colonial Legacy, Misuse and Effect on Free Speech Since its inception, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes sedition, has been a tool in the hands of the state to curb criticism and dissent. It has been used by the colonial British government as well as by successive governments of independent India against political dissidents. Six senior journalists—Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Anant Nath, Paresh Nath, Zafar Agha, and Vinod Jose—and Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament from the Congress, had been booked for “posting tweets and deliberately circu...
Sedition law can’t be invoked to quieten disquiet, says Delhi court SECTIONS Share Synopsis The observation was made in the bail orders of two men, Devi Lal Burdak and Swaroop Ram, who were booked in the same FIR on charges of sedition, spreading rumours, forgery, etc, for allegedly sharing fake videos on social media during the ongoing farmers’ protest. The judge observed that “evidently, law proscribes any act which has a tendency to create disorder or disturbance of public peace by resort to violence.” (This story originally appeared in on Feb 17, 2021)New Delhi: The law of...
Disha Ravi should have known that the State is easily offended