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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...
Expression of view which is dissent from government not seditious: Supreme CourtThe top court was hearing a plea which referred to his statement on restoring Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, ...
No decision on prosecution sanction against Kanhaiya, others yet: KejriwalHe, however, said the Delhi government's home department will take the appropriate decision after taking all facts into consideration.
High Court judge recuses self from hearing plea to bar Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba from Lok Sabha pollsJustice A J Bhambhani, who was part of the division bench headed by Chief Justice Rajendra Menon, recused himself from hearing the matter.
Plea in Delhi HC to ban Farooq, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba in LS polls for 'seditious' statementsThe petition filed by a lawyer alleged that the "seditious and communal statements" given by the three leaders were against the Constitutio...
Delhi law department examining JNU sedition case: Arvind KejriwalThe AAP-led Delhi government is seeking legal advice with regard to granting sanction for prosecution in the JNU sedition case.
Law Commission submits consultation paper on seditionIn order to study revision of Section 124-A (sedition), the Law Commission has spelled out a host of issues, which according to it, require...
NGO moves Supreme Court over sedition law, says it harasses students, intellectualsCommon Cause, a New Delhi-based non-government organisation has alleged that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code was being increasingly m...
Court dismisses complaint against Arvind Kejriwal for tweets on PM ModiThe complainant alleged that Kejriwal had "intentionally" used defamatory words with a view to spreading a sense of "hatred and contempt" t...
Why BJP has alliance with PDP, ask three JNU students"Can BJP charge PDP with sedition for its stand on Afzal Guru. If even thinking about Guru makes a student seditious, why they have an alli...
Kanhaiya Kumar cries conspiracy, says videos "doctored"JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case, has claimed he is a victim of conspiracy and falsely implicated by "fabricatin...
JNU row: Students in California, Yale narrate Kanhaiya Kumar's 'seditious' speechOver 400 academicians from international varsities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Cambridge, have also come out in support of JNU s...
Hardik Patel claims sedition charges can't be slapped on himThe 22-year-old commerce graduate had hogged limelight nationally after the rally at GMDC Ground in Ahmedabad to press for his demand of re...
Jailed Malaysian leader's daughter arrested for seditionAnwar, 67, was convicted on February 10 of sodomising a former male aide in 2008 and sentenced to five years in jail.
- Aseem Trivedi: SIT to review sedition charges against the cartoonist
Mumbai police has formed a Special Investigation Team headed by an Assistant Police Commissioner to probe the case of political cartoonist ...
- CPI(M) slams arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi in Mumbai
Condemning the arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi in Mumbai, the CPI(M) today said it was "outrageous" that he had been slapped with sediti...
- In defence of free speech: Forget charges of sedition
In a free society, charges of sedition are legitimate only in extreme cases, not whenever it is inconvenient.