The case is related to an article written by Kashmir University scholar Abdul Ala Fazili and published by Peerzada Fahad Shah on his news portal.
Imam, however, will stay in custody as there are several other cases pending against him.
Malik had earlier pleaded guilty to all charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
Sisodia, who is currently in jail in connection with an alleged liquor policy scam, was booked by the CBI in a fresh case related to alleged misuse of official position and using the city government's Feedback Unit for...
In an early rally in August 20, Khan threatened to take actions against the Police Officials, Election Commission and Political opponents over the treatment meted out to his close aide Shahbaz Gill who was arrested earlier...
In January 2021 five prominent journalists – Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, and Vinod K Jose -- were booked under sedition law in five states over allegedly “spreading fake news of a...
As the Jharkhand government has failed to keep its promise to drop all cases against them, thousands of Adivasis accused of waging war against the Indian state feel cheated
In most cases, people accused of having Maoist links are slapped with too many sections for any leniency on sedition to allow them any relief.
Despite the Supreme Court's 1962 verdict in the Kedar Nath Singh v State of Bihar case, state governments across the country have invoked the sedition law...
Activists, journos, writers and academics across Assam want the colonial-era sedition laws to be scrapped.
Lawyers in J&K say the administration's usual practice in most of the cases where the courts grant bail to the accused arrested under the UAPA or sedition or...
When the apex court on Wednesday ordered that Section 124A should be kept in abeyance till the Union government re-examines the provision, the lawyer...
"The BJP saves the real goons. Instead of saving the law, the BJP is engaged in saving loafers and goons," said AAP MP Sanjay Singh.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was responding to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's argument in court that the BJP government did what Nehru could not do...
The Law Commission in 2018 said that irresponsible exercise of the right to free speech and expression cannot be termed seditious.
Supreme Court has been hearing a clutch of pleas challenging the validity of the law on sedition, which has been under intense public scrutiny for its alleged...
The government further urged the apex court to not invest time in the petition at the moment and wait for the government's reconsideration.
The Centre has told the three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice NV Ramana, that the verdict in the Kedarnath Singh vs State of Bihar upholding sedition law is...
A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar asked the counsel appearing for Imam to place before it the documents concerning another FIR,...
Attorney General KK Venugopal, assisting in personal capacity, said the law's misuse like in the case of a Maharashtra MP for reciting 'Hanuman Chalisa' has to...
Police Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local resident Sumit had died of bullet injuries in the violence triggered after cattle carcasses were found outside...
Multiple charges, including Sedition, have been framed against Sharjeel Imam, who was arrested after making allegedly inflammatory speeches during the...
Sedition law: With law minister Kiren Rijiju saying in Parliament on Friday that Union Home Ministry has no plan to scrap the law dealing with sedition,...
The students were booked under the Act that dates back to the British era allegedly for posting a WhatsApp status praising Pakistan players after the team’s...
According to police, the FIR was initially registered under IPC Sections 153A (promoting enmity between groups) and 505 (creating or publishing content to...
