Karnataka High Court has been informed that the police department is initiating disciplinary actions through departmental inquiry against policemen who questioned students in the Bidar district.
The top court made these observations while granting protection from arrest to a suspended senior ADG rank-officer, Gurjinder Pal Singh, against whom two criminal cases -- sedition and amassing disproportionate assets -- have been filed by the Chhattisgarh government.
Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Barq has been booked for sedition following his recent remarks allegedly defending the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and equating it with India''s own freedom struggle, police said on Wednesday.
A sedition case has been filed against Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal Shafiqur Rahman Barq and two others in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh for remarks omparing Taliban occupation of Afghanistan with India's freedom struggle.
Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal Shafiqur Rahman Barq had praised Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and comparing their assault on the country with India's freedom struggle.
The threat was made through a recorded phone call to a majority of Shimla-based journalists simultaneously at 10.54 am. The caller identified himself as Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the general counsel for the SFJ.
The Kerala High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to filmmaker Aisha Sultana in the sedition case registered against her by Kavaratti Police of Lakshadweep.
Actor Kangana Ranaut on Monday told the Bombay High Court, through her lawyer, that none of her tweets had ever incited violence or caused any criminal acts, and sought quashing of the FIR registered against her for sedition by Mumbai Police.
An FIR under several charges, including sedition, has been registered in Lucknow's Hazratganj police station against former Aligarh Muslim University student Sharjeel Usmani. The FIR was registered on the complaint moved by Anuraj Singh, a Lucknow resident.
The Bombay high court on Monday extended the interim relief of no coercive action against actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel until January 25 in connection with an FIR registered against them under sedition and other charges.
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel appeared before the Bandra Police on Friday, pursuant to a Bombay High Court order in connection with a sedition case filed against them, a lawyer said.
The FIR was registered pursuant to orders passed by the Bandra magistrate's court here directing the police to carry out an inquiry against Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel following a complaint lodged against them for allegedly "trying to create hatred and communal tension" through their social media posts.
The Congress hit out at the Arvind Kejriwal government on Saturday for its sanction to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in connection with a sedition case, saying the AAP's thinking is the same as that of the BJP and they were "two sides of the same coin".
The CPI on Saturday said it will fight both "legally and politically" the sedition case against its leader Kanhaiya Kumar and alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the national capital had "succumbed to political pressure".
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at the Delhi government for its sanction to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in connection with a sedition case, saying the Kejriwal dispensation is "no less ill-informed than the Centre" in its understanding of the sedition law.
Anti national slogans were raise in the JNU campus on February 9, 2016. Four days later Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested by Delhi Police under sedition charges.
Delhi government on Friday sanctioned the Delhi Police Special Cell to probe allegations of sedition against former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Case has been registered under Sec124A (offence of sedition) of the Indian Penal Code against Amulya, the woman who raised 'Pakistan zindabad' slogan at anti-CAA rally in Bengaluru today. Police will interrogate her.
A Delhi Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi government to file a status report relating to the issue of pendency of sanction in the JNU sedition case to prosecute student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others.
Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the recent sedition case slapped at school authority in Bidar, stated that everything has been done as per law as the matter is extremely serious and sensitive. "Everything has been done as per law.
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