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'Shocking order' passed by court shakes people's faith in judiciary: SCThe Supreme Court has strongly criticized a Gujarat High Court order. The High Court had directed the in-charge chairman of the Gujarat Rev...- Language accessibility cannot be assumed: SCThe Supreme Court has ordered the transfer of divorce and custody proceedings from Kerala to Ludhiana, Punjab. A woman residing in the UK h...
- 'Courts can hold sedition trials if accused has no objection': Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has ruled that trials under the sedition law, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, can proceed if the accused agrees. T...
- Situation from Kashmir to Kerala makes it must to retain sedition law: Law panel chiefWhile the government said it will take an "informed and reasoned" decision on the Law Commission report after consulting all stakeholders a...
- Proposal 'treacherous', against spirit of SC stand, signal of centre becoming more 'deadly': Congress"In a terrible, tragic and treacherous development, The law commission has recommended that Section 124A of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) sho...
- SC to hear pleas challenging constitutional validity of sedition lawA bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha has listed for hearing as many as 12 petitions, including the one...
- Sedition law: Lawyers and free speech activists welcome SC orderNagpur-based lawyer Nihalsingh Rathod, who represents many accused in the Elgar Parishad case said the legislature should have re-examined ...
- 326 sedition cases filed in 2014-19; only 6 convictedAccording to the Union Home Ministry data, a total of 326 cases were registered under the sedition law -- the highest, 54, in Assam -- betw...
- Centre agrees to reconsider sedition law, here's all that you need to knowThe apex court has been hearing a bunch of petitions against sedition law which has attracted a lot of attention over its alleged misuse by...
- P Chidambaram takes dig at law minister over 'no proposal to scrap sedition law', Kiren Rijiju hits backResponding to a question by Assam MP Badruddin Ajmal on whether the Supreme Court has recently termed the sedition law as colonial and has ...
- Strike down sedition law, offensive parts of UAPA, retired Justice Rohinton Nariman urges SCJustice Nariman has said that it is "important for the court" to strike down Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which c...
- 326 sedition cases filed in India between 2014-19; only 6 convictionsSC last week observed that Section 124 (A) of the IPC -- offence of sedition -- has been enormously misused and asked the Centre why it was...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
- Eknath Khadse should be booked for sedition: Arvind KejriwalHe also came out in support of withdrawal of the sedition charge against Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is lodged in jail, asks for the w...
- Sedition law in India unclear, loosely defined: Nandita HaksarAfzal Guru's lawyer Nandita Haksar today said that the law of sedition is "loosely" defined in the Indian constitution and its interpretati...
- Sedition law 'necessary' to stop talks against country: N Santosh Hegde"I believe in sedition law. I am a patriot. Any patriot cannot go on abusing the country," the retired Supreme Court judge said.
- Take a look at the data on ‘offences against the state’While generally all crimes are against the state, there are some criminal activities that are directed against the existence of the state i...
- Drop sedition law from penal code, demands Mumbai Press ClubCondemning the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, the Mumbai Press Club demanded that the section of sedition must be droppe...
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