No Prima Facie Case Of Sedition Against Kashmiri Students, Observes Karnataka HC [Read Order]
4 years, 8 months ago

No Prima Facie Case Of Sedition Against Kashmiri Students, Observes Karnataka HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court observed on Friday that no prima facie case of sedition was made out against the three Kashmiri students, who were arrested in Hubli over allegations of raising pro-Pakistan slogans in February.While hearing their bail pleas, Justice G Narendar observed "Prima facie the complaint does not disclose any material which could be considered as an ingredient constituting. The Karnataka High Court observed on Friday that no prima facie case of sedition was made out against the three Kashmiri students, who were arrested in Hubli over allegations of raising pro-Pakistan slogans in February. While hearing their bail pleas, Justice G Narendar observed "Prima facie the complaint does not disclose any material which could be considered as an ingredient constituting the offence as against the petitioners." Justice Narendar said "It is fairly admitted by the high court government pleader that the petitioner - students are The Court also observed that the complainant in the case - the Principal of the Engineering College where the accused are studying - should have made an effort to counsel them.

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Live Law  

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Karnataka High Court adjourns hearing on Yediyurappa’s plea against POCSO case on Special Public Prosecutor’s request
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Karnataka High Court adjourns hearing on Yediyurappa’s plea against POCSO case on Special Public Prosecutor’s request

The Hindu  

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Live Law  

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Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Friday granted interim relief to Bharatiya Janata Party National President J P Nadda and BJP IT Cell head Amit Malaviya, in connection with an FIR registered over an allegedly offensive animated video was posted on X, by the party's Karnataka Unit on alleged Muslim appeasement by the State Congress. A single judge bench of Justice …

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Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Friday stayed further investigation in an FIR registered against MP Tejasvi Surya under Sections 153A, 295A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 123 of the Representation of People Act, for allegedly posting objectionable tweets. Following this, it is stated that a group of activists by the name of Campaign Against Hate Speech lodged a …

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Live Law  

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Live Law  

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Op India  

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11 months, 1 week ago

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New Indian Express  

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1 year ago

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Live Law  

A man has moved the Punjab & Haryana High Court challenging an order of the Sessions Court framing charges against him under Section 124A IPC over the allegations that he used 'filthy language' against India and raised Pakistan Zindabad slogan.After the video of the alleged incident went viral, the police registered the FIR under Sections 153A,124A, 504 IPC and arrested. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

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Live Law  

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has expunged the "disparaging remarks" made by a Sessions Court against former Police Commissioner of Gurugram, while deciding the anticipatory bail plea of a junior IPS officer.Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj said, "The remarks extracted above were not integral for the final adjudication of the anticipatory bail application filed by accused–Dheeraj Kumar. The Punjab & …

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1 year, 4 months ago

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The Hindu  

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Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up(July 24-30)

Live Law  

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Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday quashed the proceedings initiated against four persons belonging to the management of Shaheen School in Bidar, where the students belonging to classes 4, 5 and 6 had staged a play on the CAA and NRC in the year 2020. Senior Advocate Ameet Kumar Deshpande appearing for the petitioners confirmed that the court had quashed …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Delhi High Court to Hear Sharjeel Imam's Plea for Bail in Sedition Case on Monday

News 18  

The Delhi High Court will on Monday hear a plea by JNU student Sharjeel Imam seeking bail in connection with a 2020 riots case involving allegations of sedition. The case, which assails a January 24, 2022 order by the trial court dismissing Imam’s bail application in the matter, is listed for hearing before a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and …

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498A IPC: Karnataka High Court Quashes Criminal Case Accusing Sister-in-Law Of Harassment, Says Omnibus Allegations Made

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has quashed a criminal case where "omnibus allegations" of physical and mental harassment were made by a woman against her sister-in-law. A single judge bench of Justice Mohammad Nawaz allowed the petition filed by a woman who was chargesheeted along with other accused under sections 498-A, 323, 504 read with Section 149 IPC. The court said, …

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2 years ago

'Apprehension Of Justice Being Thwarted Because Of Unholy Political Nexus': P&H High Court Denies Bail To Accused In 2014 Murder Case

Live Law  

Observing that there is a likelihood of them threatening witnesses and apprehension of justice being thwarted because of an "unholy political nexus", the Punjab and Haryana High Court has denied bail to four accused in a 2014 case of murder of a youth from Tarn Taran. The court further noted that under political patronage enjoyed by the accused persons, the …

'Lack Of Jurisdiction': J&K&L High HC Dismisses Jaipur-Based University's Plea Seeking Reimbursement Under PM Special Scholarship Scheme
2 years ago

'Lack Of Jurisdiction': J&K&L High HC Dismisses Jaipur-Based University's Plea Seeking Reimbursement Under PM Special Scholarship Scheme

Live Law  

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has dismissed a Jaipur-based University's plea for reimbursement of the expenses incurred by it with regard to tuition fee, hostel fee and cost of books after admitting the students from Jammu & Kashmir under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme for J&K Students.Justice M A Chowdhary said merely because the students are. …

Rise of sedition cases in Karnataka
2 years, 4 months ago

Rise of sedition cases in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Karnataka had the ignominy of recording the highest number of sedition cases in the country — 22 against 25 individuals in 2019. Here are a few prominent cases: Bidar school case In 2020, the Bidar police filed a sedition case against teachers, parents of Shaheen school for organising a play against CAA-NRC, in which the Prime Minister was allegedly insulted. …

Deep Appreciation Of Facts Not Required At Stage Of Framing Charges: J&K&L High Court
2 years, 5 months ago

Deep Appreciation Of Facts Not Required At Stage Of Framing Charges: J&K&L High Court

Live Law  

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently observed that while considering a case for charge or discharge of an accused, the court is not required to enter into deeper appreciation of the facts. At the stage of framing of charge, the court has only to consider the material for framing opinion as to whether prima facie offence is …

[Jahangirpuri Riots] 'Appears To Be Of A Phishing Kind': High Court Dismisses Plea By Accused Alleging Harassment By Delhi Police
2 years, 7 months ago

[Jahangirpuri Riots] 'Appears To Be Of A Phishing Kind': High Court Dismisses Plea By Accused Alleging Harassment By Delhi Police

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by an accused in connection with the Jahangirpuri riots seeking directions on the city police not to harass him and his family members in the name of interrogation. The plea was filed by one Sheikh Ishrafil, who is alleged by the prosecution to be one of the main conspirators and perpetrators …

'Govt Doing What Nehru Couldn't': Centre tells Supreme Court on Re-examining Sedition Law
2 years, 8 months ago

'Govt Doing What Nehru Couldn't': Centre tells Supreme Court on Re-examining Sedition Law

News 18  

India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, on Tuesday, found a mention in the Supreme Court during the hearing of pleas challenging the sedition law. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was representing the petitioners arguing about the misuse of sedition law, said that former PM Nehru had echoed similar thoughts regarding Section 124A, which criminalises sedition. We are trying to do …

India top court puts colonial-era sedition law on hold for review
2 years, 8 months ago

India top court puts colonial-era sedition law on hold for review

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups and even the Supreme Court have spoken out about rampant misuse of the law against activists, writers and students. India’s Supreme Court has barred the government from using a colonial-era sedition law that critics say is often used to stifle dissent, pending a review. The Law Commission of India and even the Supreme Court have at various times …

Supreme Court ruling to decide fate of 13 pending sedition cases | Details
2 years, 8 months ago

Supreme Court ruling to decide fate of 13 pending sedition cases | Details

India Today  

With the Supreme Court of India granting the Centre a day to take instructions on what can be done about pending cases and how the government will handle future cases, India Today takes you through some of the cases that are currently pending in various courts across the country. Among the sedition cases currently pending in various courts are: Lok …

SC to hear pleas to scrap the sedition law today: Explaining the British-era offence and how it's being 'misused'
2 years, 8 months ago

SC to hear pleas to scrap the sedition law today: Explaining the British-era offence and how it's being 'misused'

Firstpost  

The Apex court last year had asked the Centre why it was not repealing the colonial-era law used by the British to silence people like Mahatma Gandhi to suppress the freedom movement, as it expressed concern over the misuse of the provision A Supreme Court bench is scheduled to hear on Wednesday a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity …

Delhi court denies bail to Sharjeel Imam in larger conspiracy case
2 years, 9 months ago

Delhi court denies bail to Sharjeel Imam in larger conspiracy case

The Hindu  

A Delhi court on Monday rejected the bail plea of JNU student Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, accused under the Unlawful Activities Act. The order in the matter was passed by Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat, who in his order said he was of the prima facie opinion that the allegations against Imam were “prima facie …

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 …

Supreme Court Criminal Law Digest 2021 [Part 1- CrPC-IPC-Evidence ]
3 years ago

Supreme Court Criminal Law Digest 2021 [Part 1- CrPC-IPC-Evidence ]

Live Law  

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973On Bail and Anticipatory Bail An Accused Who Was Released On Default Bail Cannot Be Re-arrested On Filing Of Charge SheetA bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Navin Sinha and Indu Malhotra held that an accused who was released on default bail cannot be. Section 313 CrPC Statement By Accused Is Not A Substantive Evidence To …

Karnataka High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Public Prosecutor Accused Of Raping Law Intern
3 years ago

Karnataka High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Public Prosecutor Accused Of Raping Law Intern

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to Special Public Prosecutor K S N Rajesh accused of sexual assault and attempt to rape by a law student working in his office. Advocate Dilraj Jude Rohit Sequeira appearing for the petitioner said that, "On perusal of records especially the statement of the complaint does not attract the provisions …

Delhi High Court asks police to respond to Sharjeel Imam’s bail plea in sedition case
3 years, 1 month ago

Delhi High Court asks police to respond to Sharjeel Imam’s bail plea in sedition case

India TV News  

Highlights Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar issued notice to prosecution and asked it to file a reply to the bail plea Imam, represented by senior advocate Sanjay R Hegde, challenged trial court’s Oct 22 order The prosecution was represented through Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the police to reply on a plea by JNU student Sharjeel …

Sedition Case: Judicial Remand of Kashmiri Students Extended Till 7 Dec
3 years, 1 month ago

Sedition Case: Judicial Remand of Kashmiri Students Extended Till 7 Dec

The Quint  

The trio were booked on 26 October under the Indian Penal Code sections 153-A and 505, and 66-F of the Information Technology Act. Meanwhile, the Allahabad High Court has fixed 10 December as the next date of hearing for the case, which seeks a transfer for Agra to Mathura, reported Times of India. Representing them in the case is Mathura …

23-Yr-Old Trans Student Booked On Sedition Charges Granted Anticipatory Bail By Bombay High Court
3 years, 2 months ago

23-Yr-Old Trans Student Booked On Sedition Charges Granted Anticipatory Bail By Bombay High Court

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court last week granted Anticipatory Bail to a 23-year-old Trans Person booked on Sedition Charges for allegedly raising 'objectionable slogans' in a gathering of persons supporting the cause of the LGBTQI community.The Bench of Justice N. J. Jamadar was hearing the plea filed by Urvashi Chudawala seeking pre-arrest bail in connection with a case registered for the. …

Karnataka High Court Drops Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Man Who Threatened To Kill SC Judges, Advocates
3 years, 2 months ago

Karnataka High Court Drops Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Man Who Threatened To Kill SC Judges, Advocates

Live Law  

"We have left you at this stage but be careful, don't spoil your old age, otherwise next time we will not leave you," the Karnataka High Court on Friday told a 72-year-old man who had threatened to kill Judges and Advocates. A division bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum has dropped the suo-motu criminal …

Families of Kashmiri students charged with sedition in UP over pro-Pakistan slogans wracked with worry
3 years, 2 months ago

Families of Kashmiri students charged with sedition in UP over pro-Pakistan slogans wracked with worry

Firstpost  

Although no one was willing to speak on the record, many students in the Valley felt the action taken by authorities was “too harsh" On Wednesday night, Showkat Ahmad, a 21-year-old Kashmiri student Agra’s RBS Engineering College, finally called his family. Ahmad is one among the three Kashmiri students booked for sedition by Agra police for posting “congratulatory status on …

UP: Kashmiri students held over pro-Pak slogans booked for sedition, sent to 14-day judicial custody
3 years, 2 months ago

UP: Kashmiri students held over pro-Pak slogans booked for sedition, sent to 14-day judicial custody

India TV News  

Three Kashmiri students arrested in Agra for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans were on Thursday booked for sedition, Uttar Pradesh Police officials said. The three students, two of them aged 20 and one 21, were also remanded in 14-day judicial custody by an Agra court, the officials said. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath earlier in the day had said the …

Kashmiri students held over pro-Pakistan slogans in UP booked for sedition, sent to 14-day judicial custody
3 years, 2 months ago

Kashmiri students held over pro-Pakistan slogans in UP booked for sedition, sent to 14-day judicial custody

Firstpost  

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath earlier in the day had said the sedition law will be invoked against those celebrating Pakistan’s victory against India in the recent T20 World Cup match Noida: Three Kashmiri students arrested in Agra for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans were on Thursday booked for sedition, Uttar Pradesh Police officials said. The three students, two of …

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain RGNUL Students' Plea Against HC's Refusal To List Petition Seeking Waiver Of Fees For Urgent Hearing
3 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain RGNUL Students' Plea Against HC's Refusal To List Petition Seeking Waiver Of Fees For Urgent Hearing

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a special leave petition filed by undergraduate students studying in Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law assailing Punjab and Haryana High Court's order of refusing to list for urgent hearing their writ petition seeking relief of waiver of fees for August- December 2020. Appearing for the Students, Senior Advocate Siddhartha Bhatnagar submitted …

Sedition Law Hinders Full Realization Of Free Press: Journalists Patricia Mukhim and Anuradha Bhasin Move Supreme Court Against Section 124A IPC
3 years, 5 months ago

Sedition Law Hinders Full Realization Of Free Press: Journalists Patricia Mukhim and Anuradha Bhasin Move Supreme Court Against Section 124A IPC

Live Law  

Another petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the offence of sedition as codified in Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code. The petition has been filed by two women journalists, Patricia Mukhim and Anuradha Bhasin, claiming that the use of sedition offence to intimidate, silence and punish journalists, has continued unrestrained and the …

Challenge To Sedition Offence : Supreme Court Seeks Responses Of Attorney General, Union of India; Hearing On July 27
3 years, 6 months ago

Challenge To Sedition Offence : Supreme Court Seeks Responses Of Attorney General, Union of India; Hearing On July 27

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to July 27 the hearing of the challenge to the constitutionality of the offence of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code.Attorney General for India KK Venugopal, to whom the bench had issued notice on the petition on April 30, and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was appearing for the Union of …

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 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 …

Will Issue Notice To Advocates Association For Resolving To Not Represent Sedition Accused, State Bar Council Tells Karnataka HC
3 years, 9 months ago

Will Issue Notice To Advocates Association For Resolving To Not Represent Sedition Accused, State Bar Council Tells Karnataka HC

Live Law  

The Karnataka State Bar Council on Tuesday informed the Karnataka High Court that it would issue a notice to a lawyers' body for issuing a resolution restricting its members from representing a student accused of sedition. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj, while hearing a petition filed by Advocate Ramesh Naik K, orally observed …

JNU sedition case: Delhi court takes cognisance of chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, others
3 years, 10 months ago

JNU sedition case: Delhi court takes cognisance of chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, others

Hindustan Times  

A court here has taken cognisance of a chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a 2016 sedition case and summoned them on March 15. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma on Monday took the cognisance of the final report almost a year after the Delhi Police received …

Can Action Be Taken Against Advocates Who Passed Resolution To Not Represent Student Accused Of Sedition? Karnataka High Court Asks Bar Council
3 years, 11 months ago

Can Action Be Taken Against Advocates Who Passed Resolution To Not Represent Student Accused Of Sedition? Karnataka High Court Asks Bar Council

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Karnataka State Bar Council to inform the court on the next date of hearing whether action can be taken against advocates who are members of the Mysore City Advocates Multipurpose Cooperative Society, which had in January 2020, passed a resolution to stop members of the bar from representing Nalini Balakumar, a student …

"Section 124A IPC Is A Threat To Fundamental Rights" : Plea In Supreme Court Challenges The Constitutional Validity Of Sedition Law
3 years, 11 months ago

"Section 124A IPC Is A Threat To Fundamental Rights" : Plea In Supreme Court Challenges The Constitutional Validity Of Sedition Law

Live Law  

A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court urging it to declare the law against Sedition under section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code as ultra-vires the Constitution of India. The petitioners, Advocates Aditya Ranjan, Varun Thakur and V. Elenchezhiyan, have filed the plea being aggrieved by the increased chilling effect of blatant misuse of section 124-A of IPC …

"We Have Serious Reservations About Invoking Sedition Charges Against Kangana Ranaut and Her Sister": Bombay High Court
4 years ago

"We Have Serious Reservations About Invoking Sedition Charges Against Kangana Ranaut and Her Sister": Bombay High Court

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Monday extended the interim relief of no coercive action against actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel till January 25 in connection with an FIR registered against them under sedition and other charges. The FIR, under sedition charges and for allegedly "trying to create hatred and communal tension" through their posts on social media, …

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Quash Corruption Case Against Yediyurappa; Deprecates Laxity In Investigation
4 years ago

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Quash Corruption Case Against Yediyurappa; Deprecates Laxity In Investigation

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to quash a criminal complaint registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act, against Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, who is alleged of de-notifying parcels of land and allotting it to entrepreneurs, during his tenure as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state, between February 2006 and October 2007. A single bench of Justice …

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