Old Sedition law Vs new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (Bill), 2023 –What’s the difference?
IPC ‘s Section 124 A, also called the sedition law, has been proposed to be struck off. A new offence…
IPC ‘s Section 124 A, also called the sedition law, has been proposed to be struck off. A new offence…
In the current session of the Lok Sabha, Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, brought forth three new bills. The…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said in Lok Sabha that the new bill on the Indian Penal Code…
The Apex Court's three-judge bench, headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, and also comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the validity of Section 124-A of the IPC.
During the Question Hour, Congress member from Telangana Anumula Revanth Reddy sought the number of cases registered under the offence of sedition across the country during the last 10 years, the conviction rate and the steps taken for their speedy trial.
The development comes hours after UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claimed that those upset about his state's progress were using the Hathras incident to conspire against it.
Like the complaint lodged in the national capital, the FIR registered against the senior journalist in Shimla is also over his YouTube show on communal riots in Delhi earlier this year.
On February 9, 2016, 'anti-national' slogans were allegedly raised at JNU campus during a programme called to protest against the death sentence handed out to Afzal Guru, a convict in the 2002 Parliament attack.
The development comes a day after a lower court in Delhi extended sedition-accused Sharjeel Imam's police remand by three days.
In a video that went viral on January 25, Sharjeel Imam is seen talking about splitting the northeast from India to block the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
