Congress leader P Chidambaram expressed concerns over the newly enacted criminal justice bills, stating that the new Indian Penal Code has ...

President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to three new criminal justice bills, recently approved by Parliament. The Bharatiya Nyaya San...

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...

In theory, the Indian political parties support the Constitution freedom to dissent. In practice, they seem to deny Kashmiris these freedom...

Delivering the Viswanath Pasayat Memorial lecture - which was attended among others by Justice U U Lalit, next in line to be the chief just...

"I was extremely disappointed that the Congress did not forcefully support one of its liberal lynchpins Dr Shashi Tharoor when he (along wi...

India is a society where the traditional social values of hierarchy and subordination of the subaltern rungs of the hierarchy to those abov...

The Narendra Modi government has demonstrated its resolve to pull out all those living below the poverty line, Singh said and claimed that ...

Some 1824 acts were repealed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over the reins of the government, the law minister said.

Politicos often prove to be thin-skinned when criticised, often taking drastic steps to get the concerned people punished.

In fresh attack on the NDA government, JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar today vowed to wage a "direct fight" against "dictatorship".

Kanhaiya Kumar vowed to wage a battle for scrapping of the sedition law under which he and two other PhD scholars of the university were ar...

A bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Amitava Roy, which heard Patel's lawyer Kapil Sibal for over half-an-hour, merely said "we will send...

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

Under the law, speech deemed to incite unrest or religious or social tensions or which criticises traditional rulers can carry a three-year...

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

Despite the outrage over the sedition charge on Trivedi, a police officer said there are no plans to drop it immediately.