Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah introduced three new bills in the Lok Sabha to overhaul the criminal justice system of the country. Death penalty for lynchings, new 'secession' crimes and changes in laws relating to...
Dhankar in consultation with the Speaker, referred these three bills to the Department-related Standing Committee on Home Affairs for further examination. Death penalty for lynchings, new 'secession' crimes and changes in...
Meghwal's remarks came in the wake of the recommendation by the law commission to increase the minimum jail term in sedition cases from the present three years to seven years.
Supreme Court agrees to refer the batch of petitions challenging the offence of #Sedition under Section 124A of the IPC to a bench of atleast 5 judges.
Reacting to the development, Tharoor wrote on Twitter: "This is shocking and must be resisted. The law is already grossly and frequently misused in our country."
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.
Supreme Court bench including Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will be hearing the pleas challenging the validity of section 124A of the Indian Penal Code on September 12.
Imam has said the trial court “failed to recognize” that pursuant to the directions of the top court, the basis for dismissal of his earlier bail plea, the charge of sedition, no longer existed and therefore relief must...
In a path-breaking order, the top court had on May 11 last year decided to put in abeyance the penal law on sedition till an “appropriate” government forum...
Sharjeel Imam's plea for release has been scheduled for hearing on July 26th. The JNU student was booked section 124A(sedition) of the IPC.
In January 2021 five prominent journalists – Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, and Vinod K Jose -- were booked under...
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...
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 Centre has told the Supreme Court not to invest time in examining the validity of the law as it has decided to go for re-consideration of the provisions by...
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...
The top court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the colonial era penal law on sedition and would decide whether they be referred to...
Unwarranted curtailment of individual liberty in the name of counter-terrorism by the State is the greatest tragedy of our times.
The Supreme Court had narrowed down the purview of sedition in the Kedar Nath Singh case (1962), making it applicable only when provocative language is...
