"Sedition charges can only be invoked where the intention behind any act is to overthrow the government with violence and illegal means," it observed.
The former all-India head of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Safdar Nagori, and his 10 accomplices were on Monday awarded life imprisonment by a special CBI court in Indore on Monday
The Supreme Court today sent out a clear message stating that sedition or defamation cases cannot be slapped on anyone for criticising the government. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit said,
Amid the rising number of sedition cases in India, including one on Amnesty International India for hosting a Kashmir event where alleged anti-India slogans were raised, the United States has backed the human rights group
Bengaluru Police on Monday filed a sedition case against Amnesty International's India chapter in connection with alleged raising of anti-India slogans during a debate it organised in the city. The debate on Saturday
New Delhi: Slapped with charges of sedition, JNU students Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Aniraban Bhattacharya, have been in police custody for interrogation. While the Delhi Police is diligently trying to get information about the
New Delhi: Sleuths questioning Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, the JNU students held in a sedition case, are having a tough time cracking the duo with the former denying his involvement in any sloganeering and
New Delhi: A Delhi court today refused to allow Delhi Police to collect voice samples of two JNU students -- Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, arrested in a sedition case.According to court sources, Metropolitan Magistrate
New Delhi: Amid mounting rage over police inaction over the assault on journalists and teachers and students of JNU at the Patiala House court complex last week, the Delhi Police today arrested Yashpal Singh, one
New Delhi: Coming out in support of JNUstudents' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case, students and teachers of several international universities, including those from University of California and Yale, are narrating his
New Delhi: Slapped with the charge of sedition, JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar today said that he condemned the incident at the JNU campus on February 9, terming the entire episode as unfortunate. Kanhaiya also told
New Delhi: Patiala House Court today sent JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar to 14-day judicial custody. It means that Kanhaiya will stay in jail till March 2.Earlier, the Supreme Court was today forced to step in
Muzaffarpur (Bihar): A complaint was filed in a court here today against film star Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao under various sections including sedition over his remarks on intolerance.The complaint was filed by
New Delhi: Escalating its attack against Mani Shankar Aiyar over his controversial remarks in Pakistani media, BJP today called it "treason" and demanded an apology from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.Union ministers M Venkaiah Naidu and
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has come down heavily on a magistrate in Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh for initiating proceedings on sedition charges against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for his comments on the Supreme
New Delhi: Hardik Patel today did not get any immediate relief from the Supreme Court which said his plea challenging invocation of sedition charge for allegedly inciting a mob during the quota stir for Patel
Chennai: A city court today allowed an ultra- Left propagandist singer, who was arrested for alleged sedition, to be sent to police custody for two days.The court granted the police custody of 54-year-old Kovan, propagandist
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government today informed the Bombay High Court that it has withdrawn its controversial circular issued on August 27 to prevent misuse of section 124-A of IPC which deals with sedition. State Advocate
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress today came out in support of the Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel by saying that registration of sedition cases against him was an attempt to crush the reservation stir.With the elections
Ahmedabad: A fresh case of sedition was on Wednesday filed against Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and five others by the crime branch which also arrested two of his aides, even as the Gujarat
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