On May 11, 2022, the Supreme Court of India (SC) passed a landmark order to put the sedition law in abeyance for the first time ever since India’s independence. This would suspend it until its ...

Few laws reveal the Indian State’s unease with dissent as starkly as sedition. Drafted in 1870 to protect the British Crown from political unrest and infamously wielded against figures such as Bal ...

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Centre two weeks’ time to respond to a petition challenging the validity of the sedition law under which expressions of dissent or valid criticism of governments ...

The Supreme Court is set to review the constitutional validity of Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with sedition. A petition challenging the provision, filed by retired ...

<br>A newly Independent India’s Constitution made a clean break with the past. It contained a free speech right, which did away with the law on sedition. But then, through a series of events, which ...