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...
Delhi HC grants interim bail to Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid for father's funeralBaramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid has been granted interim bail by the Delhi High Court until June 2 following the death of his father. Curr...
Bangladesh HC rejects bail plea of Hindu monk Chinmoy DasThe High Court of Bangladesh has denied bail for Brahmachari Chinmoy Krishna Das, a Hindu monk facing serious charges in the murder trial o...
Assam polls: Akhil Gogoi in fierce battle for Sivasagar seat as BJP makes contest triangularAkhil Gogoi faces a challenging election for the Sivasagar seat. He is up against AGP's Prodip Hazarika. The BJP has fielded its own candid...
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...
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...
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...
Time has come to define limits of sedition law: Supreme CourtIn this context, Justice Chandrachud said: “We recently saw a video of a body being thrown into a river. We wonder if a sedition case has b...
Congress, govt engage in war of words in Lok Sabha over sedition casesDuring the Question Hour, Congress member from Telangana Anumula Revanth Reddy sought the number of cases registered under the offence of s...
Cong, govt engage in war of words in Lok Sabha over sedition casesDuring the Question Hour, Congress member from Telangana Anumula Revanth Reddy sought the number of cases registered under the offence of s...
96 arrests in 93 sedition cases in 2019: GovtAs many as 93 cases of sedition were registered in different parts of the country in 2019 in which 96 people were arrested, the Rajya Sabha...
77 cases of sedition registered in 2014-15: GovernmentIn 2014, the highest number of 18 sedition cases were registered in Jharkhand, among all states, followed by Bihar, where 16 sedition cases...
Sedition,defamation charges cannot be invoked for criticism: Supreme CourtThe observation came as Advocate Prashant Bhushan said sedition was a serious offence and the law on it was being grossly misused for stifl...
Doing away with legal provision of sedition will be unjust: BS BassiUnder attack for arresting JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today defended the action...
- 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...