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Bihar election result 2025: From Samrat Choudhary to Mangal Panday. Check full list of winners from BJPThe NDA moved past the majority mark in Bihar, leading in 166 of 243 seats, while the INDIA bloc was ahead in 56. Leaders from the ruling c...
BJP drops seven MLAs in final list of 30, takes total to 17In a strategic move ahead of the Bihar assembly polls, the BJP has announced its final list of 30 candidates, filling all 101 positions ava...
Constitution bench of ‘at least’ five Supreme Court judges will examine Section 124A validityDeclining the request made by both attorney general R Venkataramani and solicitor general Tushar Mehta, the CJI observed that Section 124A ...
SP-rank officer can monitor registration of sedition FIRs: Centre suggests Supreme CourtThe response was filed and read over by the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to a bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Sury...
Untool this hammer from the IPC kitIn 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) began keeping separate records on sedition cases. It shows an annual increase in cases re...
Sedition law be retained, guidelines may be laid to prevent misuse: Attorney General to Supreme CourtThe top court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the colonial era penal law on sedition and would decide whether ...
View: Path to striking down sedition law still has many hurdlesThere is little doubt that the law of sedition, as it stands, is an invitation for State repression. The language of the Section (124A of I...
Former Union minister Arun Shourie moves Supreme Court against sedition lawSignificantly, the petition was filed on the day when a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana expressed concern over “enormous misuse” o...
Sedition law: Is your disaffection just healthy disapprobation, or something more sinister?So, what does disaffection mean? Is it, as the dictionary has it, the loss or absence of affection for something or someone? Or is it somet...
Journalist bodies welcome Supreme Court verdict on sedition case against Vinod DuaLauding the verdict, while the EGI demanded repeal of the "draconian" and "antiquated" sedition laws, the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC)...
Govt criticism not sedition, rules SCNo sedition case can be filed unless the spirit of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code is prime facie met, a bench comprising Justices Ud...
SC seeks response from Centre on plea challenging sedition lawA bench Justice U U Lalit, Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice K M Joseph were hearing a plea challenging section 124-A of the Indian Penal...
SC dismisses plea challenging colonial era provision of sedition, says no cause of actionThe lawyers in their plea submitted that the continuance of a draconian colonial provision like section 124-A in the penal code without cor...
Notification for polls to 11 UP Legislative Council seats to be issued on November 5The Election Commission had on Monday announced that the polls in these constituencies will be held on December 1 and the counting of votes...
Polls to 11 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats to be held on December 1The MLCs from Graduates' constituencies who have retired are Kanti Singh (Lucknow division graduates'), Kedar Nath Singh (Varanasi division...
Mere criticism of govt or policies not sedition: Supreme CourtThe SC clarified in its 1962 verdict that a "citizen has a right to say or write whatever he likes about the government, or its measures, b...
Sedition,defamation charges cannot be invoked for criticism: Supreme CourtThe observation came as Advocate Prashant Bhushan said sedition was a serious offence and the law on it was being grossly misused for stifl...
NCP wants V K Singh sacked for remarks against authors, Congress demands apology"Singh should be sacked forthwith from the Ministry for his indecent and objectionable remarks against writers and authors."
- Cops face legal hurdle in slapping sedition charge
If the police book a sedition case against writer Arundhati Roy, they will have to prove that her speeches on Kashmir, were an ‘‘ incitemen...
- Nagershwar Rao appointed Rajarshi Tandan Open University VC
Prof Nageshwar Rao of Vikram University was today appointed Vice Chancellor of Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University for a period o...