Aligarh Muslim University clashes: Police drop sedition charges against 14 students

Aligarh Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Kulhari said that the charges were dropped three days ago as no evidence was found to support them.

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· Feb 22, 2019 · 08:12 pm

Kerala: Two students of Malappuram college arrested on charges of sedition

Police said the students had put up posters supporting freedom for Kashmir, Manipur and Palestine.

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· Feb 22, 2019 · 06:04 pm

Citizenship Bill: Delhi HC dismisses plea filed by Manipur student leader booked for sedition

The judge observed that prima facie it appears that Veewon Thokchom’s social media post was an attempt to ‘incite disaffection towards the government’.

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· Feb 18, 2019 · 07:19 pm

Assam: 251 sedition cases filed since BJP alliance came to power in 2016, minister tells Assembly

Last month, anti-corruption activist Akhil Gogoi, academic Hiren Gohain and former journalist Manjit Mahanta were booked for sedition.

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· Feb 04, 2019 · 02:49 pm

Scrap sedition law, it’s a colonial hangover, says Congress leader Kapil Sibal

He accused the Centre of misusing the archaic law.

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· Jan 16, 2019 · 01:22 pm

JNU sedition case: Delhi Police say chargesheet to be soon filed against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid

Delhi Police chief Amulya Patnaik said the case was in its final stages.

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· Jan 10, 2019 · 12:38 pm

Berating the country cannot be treated as sedition, observes Law Commission

The right to criticise one’s own history and the right to offend are rights protected under free speech, the commission noted.

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· Aug 31, 2018 · 08:24 am

Bihar: Eight held on charges of sedition and attempt to promote disharmony

The police said a video allegedly showed them playing an ‘anti-national’ song at an event organised in Rohtas district.

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· Jun 19, 2018 · 10:20 am

Hyderabad: Sedition case against trio to be closed as Republic TV didn’t submit raw tapes on ‘sting’

Three men were booked for sedition after the news channel had aired clips in which they can purportedly be heard pledging their allegiance to the Islamic State.

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· Apr 16, 2018 · 11:36 am

Tamil Nadu activist faces sedition case for his book against the Centre’s river-linking plans

T Jayaraman argued that the government wants to let corporations control the rivers.

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· Oct 30, 2017 · 04:05 pm

The FIR against Amnesty is the second sedition case filed in Bangalore this year on ABVP's complaint

2014 was the first year in which cases filed under this IPC section were included in the National Crime Records Bureau data.

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· Aug 19, 2016 · 07:32 pm

Did Binayak Sen’s conviction for sedition foretell the mess we are in today?

The Supreme Court has clearly spelled out what sedition is, and yet the order isn't followed.

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· Mar 10, 2016 · 08:00 am