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...
27 Jun, 2023, 05.55 PM IST
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...
05 Jun, 2023, 01.45 PM IST
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...
05 Jun, 2023, 01.44 PM IST
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 ...
03 Jun, 2023, 12.06 AM IST
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continuous allegations of rampant misuse, there have been demands from various quarters in India that the provision be repealed like c...
02 Jun, 2023, 11.23 AM IST
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...
08 Jan, 2023, 09.42 PM IST
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 ...
12 May, 2022, 09.38 AM IST
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...
10 May, 2022, 10.21 PM IST
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 ...
05 May, 2022, 01.53 PM IST
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...
18 Jul, 2021, 04.40 PM IST
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...
18 Jul, 2021, 09.53 AM IST
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...
16 Feb, 2021, 08.25 PM IST
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.
18 Jul, 2018, 06.53 PM IST
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.
18 Oct, 2016, 11.12 AM IST
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...
10 Mar, 2016, 10.47 PM IST
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...
12 Sep, 2012, 06.05 AM IST
- Drop sedition law from penal code, demands Mumbai Press Club
Condemning the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, the Mumbai Press Club demanded that the section of sedition must be droppe...
11 Sep, 2012, 07.08 PM IST