GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Functions and Responsibilities of the Union and the States Source: HT Context: The Law Commission of India has recommended the retention of the 153-year-old colonial law on sedition in India. The Sedition Law in India: Section 124A of the IPC: It deals with Sedition – a non-bailable offence and …
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his affidavit before the Bhima Koregaon inquiry commission, wherein he said that the archaic sedition law should be repealed.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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Context: The arrest of an MP from Andhra Pradesh, on the grave charge of sedition, is yet another instance of the misuse of the provision relating to exciting “disaffection” against the government. The police in different States have been invoking sedition, an offence defined in Section 124A IPC, against critics of the establishment and …
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Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. What is sedition law? What to study? For Prelims: What is Sedition? Overview of sedition law, provisions related. For Mains: Significance of the law, need for, concerns and criticisms. Context: Assam MLA granted bail …
