Tag: sedition

Manipur violence: SC provides interim protection in sedition case against lawyer who accompanied fact-finding team

The case is now listed for July 14, no coercive steps to be taken against the petitioner in the meanwhile

Will the Private Member Bill to delete sedition from IPC be considered?

The debate against sedition has started gaining momentum as the Supreme Court has agreed to test the constitutional validity of the colonial era law that continues to haunt criminal jurisprudence

Courts unshackle chains of sedition

Recently, two High Courts and one Sessions Court granted bail in cases of sedition observing lack of material to suffice the ingredients of the offence

I raise my voice for Adivasis, am I a Traitor?

(This piece authored by Fr Stan Swamy was originally...

Citizens have the right to criticise the Government without inciting violence: SC

The court in the Vinod Dua case, has ruled that Sedition can be invoked only when there is a tendency to create public disorder

64 percent increase in Sedition cases since 2015

The conviction rate has been abysmally low; since 2015 a total of 279 cases have been registered and only 5 cases have ended in conviction

Why free speech supporters should consider Disha Ravi’s arrest a cause for concern

PMS leader Poonam Kaushik says rising arrests indicate more women being assertive in a steadily intolerant India.

Shashi Tharoor, Rajdeep Sardesai move SC over sedition FIRs

Six journalists and Dr. Tharoor have been booked for their alleged misleading tweets that claimed that the Police shot dead a Sikh youth during the Republic Day tractor parade

Manipur journalists booked under UAPA, sedition law

Duo arrested for articles expressing “sympathy and support for ideologies and activities of armed revolutionary groups”

UP college students booked for Sedition for demanding union elections

Principal N D Pandey, accused them of chanting "indecent and anti-national slogans like Le ke rahenge azadi" 

Assam charity slapped with ‘sedition’ charges!

AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal’s trust, Ajmal Foundation, accused of receiving funds from foreign terror groups; allegations emerge after AIUDF-Congress alliance for BTC polls

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