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Govt must speed up sedition law review

It has been almost a year since the Supreme Court ordered the government to put on hold all sedition trials and stop registering cases under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code until it had completed a review of the provision. The order was seen as a reprieve for politicians, activists, journalists, and dissidents arrested under this law; they can now formally seek bail for this hitherto non-bailable law, which carries a penalty of imprisonment between three years and a life term with or without a fine. As such, the apex court’s order last year was widely regarded as a