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Jharkhand govt to drop sedition charges against 3,000 anti-CAA protesters
The cases against 7 named and 3,000 unnamed accused were registered in Wasseypur, Dhanbad for taking out an anti-CAA protest march on Tuesday night without permission.
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Shehla Rashid gets interim protection from arrest in sedition case
Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain granted the relief to Rashid till November 5 and directed her to join the investigation conducted by the Delhi Police
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Closure ordered for sedition charges against 50 celebrities who wrote to PM
Although the SSP did not elaborate further, police sources claimed that during investigations it was noted that Ojhas allegations were "mischievous" and "lacked substance"
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Truth to power
The law should not restrict freedom of speech in a democracy
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Rapper Hard Kaur charged with sedition over remarks against Adityanath
A written complaint was filed by a local lawyer, Shashank Shekhar, on Wednesday, SHO Cantonment Vijay Pratap Singh said
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251 sedition cases filed in Assam since BJP came to power in 2016
Two sedition cases were slapped on RTI activist-cum- peasant leader Akihil Gogoi in Dibrugarh district and Guwahati city
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Sedition, defamation charges cannot be invoked for criticising govt: SC
The court was hearing a plea seeking the apex court's intervention to address the misuse of section 124 (A) of the IPC
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Sedition: what it really means and how many are guilty
For the first time in 67 years, after the Narendra Modi government came to power, the National Crime Records Bureau added 'sedition' as a head under which data on crime were collected. Section 124-A in the Indian Penal Code says, "Whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the government established by law in India shall be punished with life imprisonment."According to this explanation, "expression of disaffection" includes disloyalty and all feelings of hate. It also says comments that express strong disapproval of "the measures of the government, with a view to obtain their desired modifications by lawful means, without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffection, do not constitute an offense under this section."According to the section, comments expressing strong disapproval of the "administrative
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Apex court petitioned on sedition law
Common Cause asks Supreme Court to revisit its strict interpretion of 1962, contending the authorities regularly and increasingly breach those requirements to curb dissent
Sedition case: SAR Gilani gets release order
In its bail order, judge said Gilani "shall not leave jurisdiction of Delhi without permission of court" and asked him to surrender his passport
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S.A.R. Geelani arrested on sedition charges, gets bail
The former Delhi University professor was arrested for organising a meeting to mark death anniversary of Afzal Guru
Sedition law definition wide: Govt
Kiren Rijiju said the Law Commission, in its 42nd report, had noted that the sedition law is 'defective' but did not favour its deletion
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