The writer is a lawyer for petitioners in the Aadhaar cases before the Supreme Court
Why sedition law has lost meaning
Various Indian courts have repeatedly ruled against the constitutionality of this British-era legislation.
In a recent lecture, Justice Deepak Gupta, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court, noted how the provision in the Indian Penal Code providing for punishment for seditious speech is misused often than not. Justice Gupta wondered whether the time is ripe to have a relook at the law.
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