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Iran condemns US sanctions on Iranian ambassador and other officials for 'undermining Lebanon's sovereignty'Iran has strongly condemned new US sanctions targeting its ambassador-designate to Lebanon, Mohammad Reza Rauf Sheibani, and other Iranian ...- '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...
- SC to hear on Sep 12 pleas challenging validity of colonial-era sedition lawThe law on sedition, which provides for a maximum jail term of life under section 124A of the IPC for creating "disaffection towards the go...
- 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...
- Doctor prescribing cure that is worse than disease: Chidambaram on Law Commission's recommendations on sedition lawWith the law commission backing the sedition law, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said the panel's recommendation is a cas...
- Mind your tendency! Law panel says retain Sedition Law; suggests 7-year jail or lifeNot only the Law Commission has proposed enhancement of punishment from existing three years to seven years, it has proposed a significant ...
- Law Commission bats for sedition law, says don't repeal, just put in place some safeguardsAmid continuous allegations of rampant misuse, there have been demands from various quarters in India that the provision be repealed like c...
- 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...
- SC to hear on May 10 pleas challenging validity of penal law on seditionA special bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Surya kant and Hima Kohli commenced hearing arguments on a batch of pleas ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Farmers' protest: Sedition law cannot be invoked to quieten disquiet, says Delhi courtAdditional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana made the observation while granting bail to two persons - Devi Lal Burdak and Swaroop Ram - arres...
- Law Commission examining sedition law: Government"The Law Commission has undertaken the examination of Section 124 A and is considering the scope and ambit of the law on sedition.
- Defamation, sedition laws under panel's scrutinyThese include laws relating to sedition, defamation and absence of safeguards in the realm of online trolling, right to privacy etc.
- 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...
- Law of sedition belongs to colonial-era; it must be scrapped to prevent its misuseThe sedition law is utterly anachronistic in democratic India, and must be scrapped. To retain it is to invite its misuse to suppress disse...
- 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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