Topic: sedition charge

In the utterance of word, there hunches a mountain that I must climb—and just when I begin to plant my feet on the burly mountain-limb, it collapses into tiny mounds of alphabet I struggle to assemble.

Sedition is nothing but a political tool that is always used by the governments to create deter in the minds of a critical thinker. A large number of cases of sedition exemplifies the frivolous use of this provision. This law has more cons than pros and has the potential to be misused and therefore, it is necessary that this law should be abolished in India the way it has happened in Britain.

The Supreme Court on Sunday granted journalist Vinod Dua protection from arrest till July 6, in a sedition case filed against him by BJP leader.

Over 150 students of Azim Premji University in Bengaluru, demanded the immediate release of student activists across the country who were arrested following the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and called for an end to the politics of vendetta against protesters and political dissenters.

An Uttar Pradesh court Friday granted bail to Tahir Madani, an Islamic scholar and General Secretary of Rashtriya Ulama Council, in a case related to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Azamgarh.

On 6 February 2020, police booked Madani and 134 anti-CAA protesters under various sections of IPC including the charge 124 A (Sedition), 153 A (promoting enmity), violating prohibitory orders, 332 (Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 186 (Obstructing public servant).