Sedition Law

In a country where public discourse reduces to binaries, it is hard to imagine navigating through dark areas that lie between the actual law on sedition and its implementation

Human rights activists and journalists (in India) faced intimidation and attacks from both state and non-state actors, says the Amnesty International report

The observation came as advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for an NGO, said sedition was a serious offence and the law on it was being grossly misused for stifling dissent

An incident involving Amnesty International India and the ABVP has again highlighted how governments use this lawless colonial-era law

Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan says priority for panel is to come out with report on comprehensive review of the criminal justice system

The many reasons why the colonial-era law has survived numerous attempts to get rid of it