The response was filed and read over by the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to a bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Sury...

In 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) began keeping separate records on sedition cases. It shows an annual increase in cases re...

The top court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the colonial era penal law on sedition and would decide whether ...

There 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...

Significantly, the petition was filed on the day when a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana expressed concern over “enormous misuse” o...

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...

Lauding the verdict, while the EGI demanded repeal of the "draconian" and "antiquated" sedition laws, the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC)...

No 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...

A 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...

The lawyers in their plea submitted that the continuance of a draconian colonial provision like section 124-A in the penal code without cor...

The Election Commission had on Monday announced that the polls in these constituencies will be held on December 1 and the counting of votes...

The MLCs from Graduates' constituencies who have retired are Kanti Singh (Lucknow division graduates'), Kedar Nath Singh (Varanasi division...

The 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...

The observation came as Advocate Prashant Bhushan said sedition was a serious offence and the law on it was being grossly misused for stifl...

"Singh should be sacked forthwith from the Ministry for his indecent and objectionable remarks against writers and authors."

If the police book a sedition case against writer Arundhati Roy, they will have to prove that her speeches on Kashmir, were an ‘‘ incitemen...

Prof Nageshwar Rao of Vikram University was today appointed Vice Chancellor of Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University for a period o...