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    • Sedition case should be registered against protesters who 'insulted' national flag on my car: Himachal minister

      More than 50 people were booked for wrongful restraint, unlawful assembly and rioting after they greeted the revenue minister with black flags and ''go back'' slogans, and tried to stop his vehicle in the Seraj on Friday

    • Bangladesh detains ISKCON monk Krishna Das Prabhu, bars him from leaving country

      Information and Broadcasting Ministry advisor Kanchan Gupta took to social media to announce the prominent Bangladeshi Hindu religious leader’s arrest, while adding that the monk has been detained on sedition charges

    • Lawyers urge SC to constitute a 7-judge bench to hear challenges to sedition law

      It was argued that in 1962, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court upheld the validity of sedition law in Kedarnath Singh's judgment and hence it needs to be placed before a 7-judge bench if the 5-judge judgment needs to be reviewed

    • SC refers pleas against sedition law to Constitution Bench

      Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud will take a call on whether the case will be heard by a bench of five judges or seven judges.

    • Proposed repeal of criminal legislation biggest reform in 76 years, lawyers say

      Lawyers said the move to bring in new legislation to replace the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Indian Evidence Act is the biggest reform of criminal law since India attained independence in 1947.

    • Law commission's recommendation on sedition not binding, says law minster

      The law minister also further said that the law commission's report on sedition is one of the steps in the extensive consultation process that the government has undertaken.

    • Law commission recommends retaining sedition as offence in criminal law

      The law commission's report has recommended that the punishment for committing an act of sedition be increased to seven years from the current punishment of three years.

    • Consultations on re-examining sedition law at advanced stage, government tells SC

      The case will now be heard in August. The Supreme Court put the law on hold in May 2022, asking the Centre and states not to register any sedition case under Section 124A of the IPC, which was added to the penal code in 1890

    • Sedition law was being abused; its shelving is a welcome step

      The crime of sedition has, thankfully, been put in cold storage. Embarrassing as it was for India’s reputation, no government wanted to give up the power to threaten their critics with the charge of sedition.

    • Sedition Law | Supreme Court asks Centre, states to keep Sec 124A in abeyance till reconsideration

      The Supreme Court has asked the government to refrain from registering cases under existing sedition law until the time the government's recosnideration of the law is in process.

    • Sedition law| SC asks govt plan on existing pending cases under law during reconsideration

      The government in its affidavit informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to re-examine and reconsider the law on sedition and urged the court to defer hearing the case on sedition law's validity.

    • Decided to re-examine sedition law, Centre tells Supreme Court

      Earlier this month, the government had said that the law on sedition was well settled and did not need a relook by the Supreme Court.

    • Centre defends sedition law in SC, says past judgment that upheld its validity withstood 'test of time'

      The top court, in 1962, had upheld the validity of the sedition law while attempting to restrict its scope for misuse.

    • Youth Congress files police complaint against Kangana Ranaut for 'seditious' remarks on social media

      Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement on November 19 that the Centre will repeal three contentious farm laws, Kangana Ranaut posted Instagram stories, saying India is a "Jihadist Nation" and calling for dictatorship in the country, the complaint by the youth wing of the Congress said.

    • Sedition law challenged in Supreme Court, Arun Shourie moves plea against Section 124A of IPC

      Shourie's plea came hours after the Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, raised concern over the alleged misuse of the sedition law.

    • Sedition a 'colonial' law, is it needed after 75 years of independence: Supreme Court asks Centre

      The Supreme Court said it would examine the sedition law's constitutional validity

    • Kerala HC refuses to stay further proceedings in sedition case against Lakshadweep filmmaker Ayesha Sulthana

      A case against Ayesha Sulthana was registered on June 9 under Section 124-A (sedition) and 153 B (hate speech) of IPC on the basis of a petition lodged by a political leader hailing from Kavaratti.

    • Jailed Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan's mother dies

      Khadeeja Kutty, 90, was in a critical condition since the past four months. In February, Kappan was given a five-day parole to meet her.

    • Expressing views different from government's opinion not seditious: Supreme Court

      Expressing dissent or views that are different from the opinion of the government cannot be seditious, the Supreme Court said.

    • Toolkit case: Activist Disha Ravi granted bail by Delhi court

      The bail order was issued by Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, who asked Disha to submit two sureties of Rs one lakh each.

    • Disha Ravi: All you need to know about the climate activist arrested in the ‘toolkit’ case

      A student of Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, Disha is among the notable climate activists in India. She had, in 2019, started the Fridays for Future (FFF) India - an initiative linked to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement.

    • Sedition Cases | When the process becomes the punishment

      Sedition trials are statistically doomed to end in acquittals. Then why does the State doggedly pursue these cases?

    • Karnataka: Nothing seditious about school play, says court

      The case against a school play had led to immense controversy as children were questioned by the police several times.

    • Will fight politically, legally sedition case against Kanhaiya Kumar: CPI

      The Delhi government on February 28 gave a go-ahead to the city police to prosecute former JNUSU president Kumar and nine others in connection with a four-year-old sedition case, as the ruling AAP denied the persistent BJP charge of blocking the proceedings in the matter.

    • This is Pakistan, not India: Islamabad judge while hearing bail plea of activists charged with sedition

      Justice Athar Minallah said on February 17 that it is not expected of a democratic government to curb freedom of expression.

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