Bulandshahr riot: Sedition charge dropped against accused as UP Police fails to get sanction from state govt
5 years, 10 months ago

Bulandshahr riot: Sedition charge dropped against accused as UP Police fails to get sanction from state govt

India Today  

A court in Bulandshahr has dropped the sedition charge against 38 people accused of violence in Bulandshahr in which a police inspector and a civilian were killed, their lawyer claimed on Tuesday. The UP Police is yet to take sanction from the state government for sedition charges against all accused in Bulandshahr violence. The local court pulled up the state police for adding Indian Penal Code section 124A in the Bulandshahr riots chargesheet without taking sanction from the state government. Bhushan, also a member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, cited Section 196 in the Code of Criminal Procedure -- prosecution for offences against the state and criminal conspiracy to commit such offence-- to argue that a court cannot take cognizance of a sedition charge without the police having approval of the government.

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New law repackaged sedition, should not be used to stifle dissent: High Court
2 weeks, 5 days ago

New law repackaged sedition, should not be used to stifle dissent: High Court

India Today  

The Rajasthan High Court has observed that Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita appears to be reintroducing sedition laws from the scrapped Indian Penal Code and should not be used to cripple legitimate dissent. Justice Arun Monga also pointed out that the BNS provision is similarly worded to the sedition offence originally introduced by the British. The High Court …

Sedition Law: 399 Cases Filed, Convictions in Only 8 Between 2014 and 2020, Shows Home Ministry Data
2 years, 7 months ago

Sedition Law: 399 Cases Filed, Convictions in Only 8 Between 2014 and 2020, Shows Home Ministry Data

News 18  

Of the 399 cases of sedition were registered in India between 2014 and 2020, convictions were granted in eight, Union Home Ministry data shows. Section 124A says that “whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection …

What now for Rana couple as Supreme Court puts sedition law on hold
2 years, 7 months ago

What now for Rana couple as Supreme Court puts sedition law on hold

India Today  

While Member of Parliament Navneet Rana and Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Ravi Rana were granted bail by a Mumbai court on May 4, what happens now that the Supreme Court has asked that the Sedition 124A section be kept in abeyance? The three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, stated that they hoped and expected the …

Committee on criminal law reforms recommended amendments to sedition law
2 years, 8 months ago

Committee on criminal law reforms recommended amendments to sedition law

The Hindu  

A panel of experts constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs to suggest reforms to the British-era Indian Penal Code has recommended amendments to the sedition law, a senior government official told The Hindu. The Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws appointed by the MHA in 2020 submitted an exhaustive report in March, which among other IPC sections also examined …

Explained: How successive state and central governments have defended sedition law in the past
2 years, 8 months ago

Explained: How successive state and central governments have defended sedition law in the past

Firstpost  

From the Aseem Trivedi case of 2012 to the Rana couple incident of 2022, different parties have used the contentious legislation and defended it, despite opposition from other corners After calling sedition a “good law” and telling the Supreme Court that there was no need to strike it down, the Centre on Monday climbed down from its previous stance, saying …

Karnataka Court Orders Probe Against Minister KS Eshwarappa For Alleged Hate Speech, Sedition
2 years, 9 months ago

Karnataka Court Orders Probe Against Minister KS Eshwarappa For Alleged Hate Speech, Sedition

Live Law  

A Special Magistrate's Court in Bengaluru on Wednesday issued a direction under section 156 of CrPC, directing the local Police to investigate a private complaint filed against State Minister of Rural Development, KS Eshwarappa, alleging offence of Sedition and promoting religious enmity. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Preeti J in its order said, "This complaint is referred to SHO of Doddapete …

Bulandshahr Violence: Court Allows Filing Sedition Charge Against 36 Accused
2 years, 9 months ago

Bulandshahr Violence: Court Allows Filing Sedition Charge Against 36 Accused

News 18  

A local court has allowed the filing of sedition charge against 36 accused in the 2018 Syana mob violence case here, in which two people, including a police officer, were killed, officials said on Thursday. Police Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local resident Sumit had died of bullet injuries in the violence triggered after cattle carcasses were found outside …

News Analysis | Sedition: CJI’s observations in July show SC has taken judicial notice of misuse
3 years ago

News Analysis | Sedition: CJI’s observations in July show SC has taken judicial notice of misuse

The Hindu  

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s reply in Parliament that there is no proposal to scrap sedition from the penal code comes almost five months after Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana made scathing remarks in open court to the Government about the chilling effect of the “colonial law” which suppresses the freedoms of ordinary people. Further, the question of law regarding …

Kerala HC refuses to stay further proceedings in sedition case against Aisha Sultana
3 years, 6 months ago

Kerala HC refuses to stay further proceedings in sedition case against Aisha Sultana

Firstpost  

A case was registered against Sultana on 9 June under Section 124-A and 153 B of IPC on the basis of a petition lodged by a political leader hailing from Kavaratti Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Friday refused to stay further proceedings in the sedition case registered against Lakshadweep filmmaker Aisha Sultana. Considering a plea filed by Sultana seeking …

Supreme Court seeks govt reply on plea against sedition
3 years, 8 months ago

Supreme Court seeks govt reply on plea against sedition

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the penal law on sedition, which, a plea filed in the matter claimed, is often used to stifle dissent and valid criticism against government functionaries. The bench, which included justices Indira Banerjee and K M Joseph, issued notices while hearing the petition filed by two journalists and argued …

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea challenging sedition law
3 years, 8 months ago

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea challenging sedition law

India Today  

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea challenging the legal validity of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code that deals with the offence of sedition. The sedition law has been challenged by two journalists -- Kishorechandra Wangkhemcha from Manipur and Kanhaiya Lal Shukla from Chhattisgarh -- on the grounds that the law violates the fundamental right of …

Disagreeing with govt is not sedition, says SC
3 years, 10 months ago

Disagreeing with govt is not sedition, says SC

Hindustan Times  

It is not seditious to have views different from the government, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday as it junked a petition that sought action against former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah for his comments on the scrapping of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the state into two Union territories. The word “sedition” disappeared from the Constitution …

Karnataka police yet to file charge-sheets in 3 sedition cases filed a year ago
3 years, 10 months ago

Karnataka police yet to file charge-sheets in 3 sedition cases filed a year ago

Hindustan Times  

A year after filing sedition cases against a researcher, the mother of an 11-year-old school student and a 20-year-old activist, the Karnataka Police is yet to submit a charge sheet in any of the cases, officials and lawyers said. Not child’s play In north Karnataka’s Bidar, more than a year after a short clip of a children’s play in a …

Jharkhand Police Drops Sedition Charge Against Anti-CAA Protesters; SP Seeks Explanation From Investigating Officer
5 years ago

Jharkhand Police Drops Sedition Charge Against Anti-CAA Protesters; SP Seeks Explanation From Investigating Officer

Live Law  

On Wednesday, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren took to Twitter to announce that steps had been taken to obliterate the charge of sedition, invoked against 3,000 people in Dhanbad district for participating in anti-CAA protests. "In Dhanbad, directions have been issued to scrap the charge of sedition imposed on 3000 people forthwith and proper action has been recommended against the guilty …

Bulandshahr violence accused get heroic welcome after release on bail; supporters raise slogans of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai', 'Jai Shri Ram'
5 years, 4 months ago

Bulandshahr violence accused get heroic welcome after release on bail; supporters raise slogans of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai', 'Jai Shri Ram'

Firstpost  

The violence had erupted in Bulandshahr after carcasses of around 25 cattle were found in the forests close to a police station. Bulandshahr: Amid the chanting of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram,’ five accused of sedition in the Bulandshahr violence were accorded a heroic welcome by their supporters outside the jail after they were released on bail …

44 accused in the Bulandshahr violence case to be charged with sedition
5 years, 7 months ago

44 accused in the Bulandshahr violence case to be charged with sedition

Op India  

The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh has given its permission to slap sedition charges on 44 persons accused of inciting violence in Chingravati area of Bulandshahr which claimed lives of two people, including that of one police personnel. According to the officials investigating the case, they had successfully secured the approval from the administration for slapping sedition charges under …

JNU Sedition Case : Delhi Police Files Chargesheet Against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others
5 years, 11 months ago

JNU Sedition Case : Delhi Police Files Chargesheet Against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others

Live Law  

The Delhi Police filed a chargesheet on Monday against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a sedition case lodged in 2016. The police also charged former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during an event on the university campus on February 9, 2016 to commemorate the. The police …

JNU sedition case: 3 years on, Delhi Police files chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar and 9 others
5 years, 11 months ago

JNU sedition case: 3 years on, Delhi Police files chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar and 9 others

India TV News  

Jawaharlal Nehru University student Kanhaiya Kumar and others shouted anti-India slogans during a rally against the capital punishment to Kashmiri separatist and Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru three years ago, a 1200-page chargesheet filed by Delhi Police on Monday has claimed. Apart from Kumar, the chargesheet has named nine others, including Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Aquib Hussain, Mujeeb Hussain, Muneeb …

Bulandshahr violence: Man who 'shot' cop sent to 14-day custody
6 years ago

Bulandshahr violence: Man who 'shot' cop sent to 14-day custody

India TV News  

A court on Friday sent to 14-day judicial custody the man who allegedly shot dead a police inspector during mob violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district earlier this month. Mob violence broke out near Chingrawathi police post on December 3 after cattle carcasses were found strewn in a field near Mahaw village. Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and 20-year-old Sumit Kumar …

Bulandshahr: Slain cop’s family alleges political pressure behind arrest delay
6 years ago

Bulandshahr: Slain cop’s family alleges political pressure behind arrest delay

Hindustan Times  

The family of inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was killed in Bulandshahr violence on December 3, has alleged that there was political pressure in the case due to which the arrest of the three main accused was being delayed. Subodh’s younger son Abhishek Pratap Singh said, “The incident took place on December 3. Subodh’s elder son Shrey Singh said the …

Bulandshahr violence: 3 arrested for cow slaughter, 2 for role in clashes
6 years ago

Bulandshahr violence: 3 arrested for cow slaughter, 2 for role in clashes

India Today  

Five people were arrested on Tuesday, December 18, in the Bulandshahr violence case that killed two people including an on-duty inspector and a civilian. Three of the main accused were arrested by the Bulandshahr police for their involvement in the cow slaughtering case, while two accused were nabbed by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force for the subsequent violence on …

Bulandshahr violence case: Non-bailable warrant issued against Yogesh Raj and 26 others as key accused still absconds
6 years ago

Bulandshahr violence case: Non-bailable warrant issued against Yogesh Raj and 26 others as key accused still absconds

Firstpost  

The development comes after an application was submitted by the investigators before the Chief Judicial Magistrate court in Bulandshahr, arguing that the absconding accused were trying to influence the probe. A non-bailable warrant has been issued against the accused in the Bulandshahr mob violence case, comprising Bajrang Dal convener Yogesh Raj, BJP Yuva Morcha, Bulandshahr city president Shikhar Agarwal, former …

Bulandshahr mob violence: Yogi Adityanath govt transfers two police officials for delayed response to incident
6 years, 1 month ago

Bulandshahr mob violence: Yogi Adityanath govt transfers two police officials for delayed response to incident

Firstpost  

Two police officials have been transferred in connection to the mob violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr town earlier this week where an inspector and a civilian were killed, authorities said on Saturday. Lucknow: Two police officials have been transferred in connection to the mob violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr town earlier this week where an inspector and a civilian were …

Bulandshahr violence: Four people arrested; two FIRs lodged
6 years, 1 month ago

Bulandshahr violence: Four people arrested; two FIRs lodged

Op India  

Four people have been arrested over violence in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. The protests, which were reportedly over police inaction after repeated complaints of illegal slaughterhouses, claimed two lives, a police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh as well as a youth named Sumit. I don’t know about the organizations yet, but the main accused in the violence is Yogesh Raj who has …

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