Watershed moment On December 8, 2023, HM Amit Shah announced in the Lok Sabha, that new Bharatiya Sanhita legislations were being introduced to replace British era enactments relating to criminal…
Why has the state killed Jivan, the protagonist in Megha Majumdar’s much-reviewed, highly praised novel, A Burning? For her alleged ‘crimes against the nation’, ‘sedition’—for simply sharing a Facebook post…
The ban on the Sedition Act will remain in place for the time being. The Supreme Court has accepted the central government's request to postpone the hearing in this case.…
Disclaimer This writer is not a legal practitioner and not educationally qualified in law. However, being one among the several Petitioners challenging the sedition law IPC Section 124A in the…
The ‘sedition’ law in India is repressive and regressive, archaic and obsolete, draconian in nature and blatantly violative of the freedoms guaranteed to every citizen of the country in the…
Following the 1857 so-called Great Indian Rebellion during the rule of the East India Company, British monarch Queen Victoria, issued proclamation in 1858 that India would be governed by and…
In the Supreme Court today, a bench headed by the present Chief Justice NV Ramana heard that four former Chief Justices J.S. Against the backdrop of the tenure of Khehar,…
Single party rule at the centre has come after a gap of around three decades. Three decades ago the roles were in a reverse configuration from the present. The…
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court N.V. Ramana recently asked the Attorney General of the Central Government, "Is there a need for a law of 'treason' which reminds us of…
“…these are fundamental rights from a police constable's point of view and not from the point of view of a free and fighting nation. Here whatever right is given is…
The Indian Sedition Law owes its origin to The British Sedition Act of 1661, an Act of Parliament of England which was passed as an Act for safety and Preservation of…
A democratically elected government should be pleased when it faces dissent as this tells it what is going wrong with its administration and how to rectify wrongs. Instead, dissent is…
Co-Written by Atul and Sandeep Pandey British left India in August 1947 but left many of their draconian laws here as a colonial legacy. Section 124A of the Indian Penal…
Recently, Amulya Leona got bail from a Magistrate court after session court had denied her bail however, later, Magistrate court accepted the bail on the basis that Police didn’t file…
Democracy is established on the foundation of questions, and when there remains a scissor to cut off the questions that the administration feels to be against them, then it does…
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