Sedition? Seriously?
September 11, 2012 12:22
"Take again Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code,' Jawaharlal Nehru said during a parliamentary debate centred around freedom of speech in 1951. "Now as far as I am concerned that particular Section is highly objectionable and obnoxious and it should have no place in any body of laws that we might pass. The sooner we get rid of it the better.'
Ironically, the sedition clause not only remains on the statute book but is used periodically against human rights activists, journalists and intellectuals.
The editorial on the Hindu on the sedition charges against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi
Ironically, the sedition clause not only remains on the statute book but is used periodically against human rights activists, journalists and intellectuals.
The editorial on the Hindu on the sedition charges against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi