Government proposes to abolish sedition lawA new section, separately, deals with the crime of mob lynching and has been incorporated in the BNS bill, with death penalty as the maximu...
12 Aug, 2023, 12.25 AM IST
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
Govt will take 'informed and reasoned' decision on sedition law after consultations: Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal"The law commission report on Sedition is one of the steps in the extensive consultative process. The recommendations made in the report ar...
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
Increase jail term in sedition cases to 7 years: Law commission recommendationThe current Section 124A of IPC reads as follows: "Sedition-Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible represen...
02 Jun, 2023, 07.38 PM 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continuous allegations of rampant misuse, there have been demands from various quarters in India that the provision be repealed like c...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
Delhi HC to hear on May 26 Sharjeel Imam's interim bail plea based on SC order on seditionThe application, filed through advocates Talib Mustafa, Ahmad Ibrahim, and Kartik Venu, said the trial court's order rejecting his bail is ...
17 May, 2022, 12.13 PM IST
Supreme Court junks PIL against Farooq Abdullah, fines litigantsMerely disagreeing with the government will not amount to sedition, a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta said on Wednesd...
03 Mar, 2021, 09.22 PM IST
JNU sedition case: Delhi court takes cognisance of chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, othersFormer JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and others, including former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were accused of raisi...
16 Feb, 2021, 11.32 AM IST
Scrap sedition law, a colonial hangover: Kapil SibalHe also called for a change in the government to save the country. "Scrap sedition law (section 124A,IPC), a colonial hangover.
16 Jan, 2019, 04.07 PM IST
IPC needs revision to meet 21st century demands: President Pranab MukherjeePresident said while there is no doubt that the IPC as a premier code for criminal law is a model piece of legislation it requires a thorou...
27 Feb, 2016, 02.00 AM IST
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...
23 Feb, 2016, 10.30 PM IST
BJP against withdrawl of sedition charges against Kashmiri studentsLaxmikant Bajpai, President of BJP, "BJP will meet the Union Home Minister in connection with this issue and will demand a CBI probe into i...
07 Mar, 2014, 01.18 PM IST
Sedition charge against Kashmiri students: Congress steers clearCongress today steered clear of the issue of sedition charge against some Kashmiri students studying in Meerut for cheering Pakistan's vict...
06 Mar, 2014, 07.43 PM IST
Kashmiri students booked for sedition for cheering Pakistan teamAround 60 Kashmiri college students studying in Meerut were charged with sedition by Uttar Pradesh police for cheering Pakistan's victory a...
06 Mar, 2014, 06.12 PM IST
Sedition charges against Kashmiri students uncalled for:OmarAround 60 Kashmiri students at Swami Vivekananda Subharti University in Meerut were expelled for three days from the hostel after they had ...
06 Mar, 2014, 05.08 PM IST