GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: NCP chief Sharad Pawar recently created a stir with his affidavit before the Bhima Koregaon inquiry commission, wherein he said that the archaic sedition law should be repealed. He said …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: Calling for abolishing the law on sedition, former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Nariman has expressed concern on booking critics of the government for sedition. He said, it is time to …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has clarified that there is no proposal under consideration to scrap Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that deals with sedition. …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: The Assam Police have charged the editor and co-owner of a local news portal in the Barak Valley with sedition (under 124A) for an editorial deemed to promote enmity between …
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