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Here are the top highlights of the Supreme Court's historic order putting in abeyance the 1890 colonial-era penal law on sedition, lodging of FIRs, and consequential proceedings under it across the country:
‘Stalling tricks to buy time’: TMC MP Mahua Moitra slams Centre over SC hearing on sedition law - TMC leader Mahua Moitra slammed the Centre for using “stalling tricks to buy time” during the SC hearing of the sedition law.
The top court also asked the government to reply by tomorrow on whether the sedition law can be paused and people charged under it can be protected while the colonial-era law is being reviewed
Former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has stated that sedition law is
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The Minister was speaking to ANI on the government's decision to re-examine Section 124A when he said that the law would be modified as per the need of the hour.