In the first reading of the bill, there is no mention of the word sedition as it was in Indian Penal Code. However upon a closer look, it is clear that sedition is not particularly removed as an offense, but it has been...
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 community in Shimla considered it a great reprieve for those booked on...
"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.
In May 2022, the Supreme Court put the law on sedition in abeyance till the time the Centre completes the re-examination of the colonial provisions.
The Supreme Court decision will benefit those people who are booked under sedition for speaking against the government, for writing a Facebook post or a tweet against a politician, or cracking a joke against a politician.
The CPI issued a statement welcoming the verdict by the Supreme Court and reiterated its demand to scrap the law. It claimed that the party's consistent position on this stood vindicated.
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.
