Akhil Gogoi faces a challenging election for the Sivasagar seat. He is up against AGP's Prodip Hazarika. The BJP has fielded its own candid...

The Supreme Court will review the sedition law's constitutional validity under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. A petition filed by Major Gener...

A new section, separately, deals with the crime of mob lynching and has been incorporated in the BNS bill, with death penalty as the maximu...

While the government said it will take an "informed and reasoned" decision on the Law Commission report after consulting all stakeholders a...

The current Section 124A of IPC reads as follows: "Sedition-Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible represen...

Nagpur-based lawyer Nihalsingh Rathod, who represents many accused in the Elgar Parishad case said the legislature should have re-examined ...

Justice Nariman has said that it is "important for the court" to strike down Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which c...

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...

Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said only 96 arrests have been made...

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...

Common Cause, a New Delhi-based non-government organisation has alleged that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code was being increasingly m...

Vivian Lee & blogging partner Alvin Tan were charged in 2013 under the Sedition Act for uploading the photo of having pork.

Justice Rajinder Sacher urged people to unite and launch a movement for repealing the 'sedition laws - 124A' of Indian Penal Code.

He said the 21st Law Commission 'cannot jump to any conclusion' before understanding the difficulties relating to section 124 A of the IPC.

"I believe in sedition law. I am a patriot. Any patriot cannot go on abusing the country," the retired Supreme Court judge said.

The revised act makes it illegal to promote sedition on the internet, which may give rise to web censorship.

Condemning the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, the Mumbai Press Club demanded that the section of sedition must be droppe...