Farmers' protest toolkit case: Shantanu Muluk moves Delhi court for anticipatory bailThe application moved by Muluk is likely to come up for hearing Wednesday before Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana. Muluk had got t...
23 Feb, 2021, 02.50 PM IST
Arrests under sedition charges rise but conviction falls to 3%Between 2016 and 2019, the number of cases filed under Section 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) increased by 160% while the ...
17 Feb, 2021, 07.51 AM IST
Delhi cops pick up 22-year-old Disha Ravi from Bengaluru for sedition in Greta toolkit caseShe has been charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy, among other offences. The daughter of an athletics coach, she has been remanded...
15 Feb, 2021, 10.20 AM IST
FIRs against Tharoor, journalists figure in Rajya SabhaRaising the issue through a zero hour mention, Digvijaya Singh of the Congress said FIRs had been filed against politicians, journalists an...
03 Feb, 2021, 02.35 PM IST
CM Yediyurappa says student activist Amulya had Naxal links; Cong, JD(S) condemn pro-Pak sloganeeringAnother Congress leader D K Shivakumar said that there was no question of defending anti-nationals, be Amulya or anybody. “A thorough inves...
21 Feb, 2020, 08.23 PM IST
Students’ arrest: Yediyurappa under pressure to probe police actionThe youth, students of the KLE Institute of Technology in Hubballi, have been in the eye of a storm after a video clip showed them raising ...
19 Feb, 2020, 11.27 AM IST
Bidar school case: Siddaramaiah demands withdrawal of sedition chargesReferring to a recent incident where students of Sri Rama Vidya Kendra in Dakshina Kannada enacted Babri Masjid demolition and rebuilding o...
06 Feb, 2020, 04.14 PM IST
Karnataka school play: Police say court will take a call on sedition chargeMinority educational institution Shaheen Primary & High School in Bidar was at the centre of controversy after the police arrested the head...
05 Feb, 2020, 09.17 PM IST
Siddaramaiah, Kumaraswamy booked for sedition over protest against I-T raidsBased on a complaint by activist Mallikarjuna A, a city court recently directed the commercial street police to register a case under vario...
29 Nov, 2019, 01.44 PM IST
Sedition tag for Pulwama comments worries activistsGovernments have used sedition as a tool to crush dissent more than anything else, says an advocate.
28 Feb, 2019, 11.30 AM IST
20-year-old held for Facebook post on Pulwama terror attackThe Police arrested Faiz Rashid from HBR Layout and seized the tools he had employed to post the comments concerned.
17 Feb, 2019, 07.57 PM IST
Judge Santosh Hegde justifies sedition charge against Amnesty InternationalJudge N Santosh Hegde said Amnesty International cannot "run away" from its responsibility by saying that none of its employees shouted slo...
19 Aug, 2016, 03.17 PM IST
Amnesty International case: Raising slogans not a case fit to be charged with sedition, says Digvijay singh“Simply raising slogans is not a fit case to be charged with Sedition. It is a law which British used against our Leaders in Freedom Moveme...
18 Aug, 2016, 02.04 AM IST
NGO moves Supreme Court over sedition law, says it harasses students, intellectualsCommon Cause, a New Delhi-based non-government organisation has alleged that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code was being increasingly m...
18 Aug, 2016, 01.57 AM IST
Amnesty sedition row: There was unlawful activity at the event, says top city copOn August 13, Amnesty had organised an event in the city where Kashmiri families narrated atrocities allegedly committed by the Indian arme...
17 Aug, 2016, 10.42 AM IST
Congress plays it safe, says inquiry will find out facts about Amnesty issueJairam Ramesh said: “It is not proper to compare the Bangalore incident with the JNU incident. JNU is a centre of excellence, a larger univ...
17 Aug, 2016, 01.18 AM IST
Youth Congress wants a debate on nationalism after Rahul Gandhi accused of seditionThe complaint in Telangana has accused Rahul Gandhi and six national leaders, along with Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid of working against ...
01 Mar, 2016, 07.40 PM IST