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Free (the) speech: 475 sedition cases registered between 2014 and 2021

The most number of such cases were reported from Haryana (42 cases), followed by Jharkhand (40), Karnataka (38), Andhra Pradesh (32), and Jammu & Kashmir (29)

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At least 475 cases of sedition have been recorded as being registered in India between 2014 and 2021. Assam accounted for 69 cases, or 14.5 per cent. This means one out of every six sedition cases registered in India between 2014 and 2021 came from Assam.

State-wise analysis

The most number of such cases were reported from Haryana (42 cases), followed by Jharkhand (40), Karnataka (38), Andhra Pradesh (32), and Jammu & Kashmir (29).

These six states accounted for 250 cases — more than half the number of total sedition cases recorded in the country — in eight years.

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