The latest clarification by the apex court marks a crucial constitutional moment—preserving the freeze on fresh prosecutions under Section 124A while allowing accused persons to seek closure in long-p ...

An independent database has documented the staggering rise of sedition cases against Indian citizens since the BJP came to power.

Top court says pending appeals and criminal proceedings under IPC Section 124A can continue if those charged raise no objection before courts ...

Few laws reveal the Indian State’s unease with dissent as starkly as sedition. Drafted in 1870 to protect the British Crown from political unrest and infamously wielded against figures such as Bal ...

Since 2022, sedition cases across the country have been left hanging. After the Supreme Court put Section 124A of the Indian ...

More than 300 cases were registered under the controversial, “colonial” era sedition law across the country from 2014 to 2019, news agency PTI has reported citing data from the Union ministry of home ...

The clarification comes four years after the top court, while hearing petitions challenging the sedition provision under IPC, had directed that “all pending trials, appeals and proceedings with respec ...

HYDERABAD: Nampally police have invoked Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against BRS leader and former ...

Supreme Court's revival of Section 124A proceedings reignites debate over the controversial colonial-era sedition law amidst ongoing constitutional challenges.

BANGALORE, India — Amnesty denied on Tuesday its staff made anti-nationalist comments at one of its events on disputed Indian Kashmir after the rights group was slapped with sedition charges. Police ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A political cartoonist whose drawings mock Indian government corruption has been jailed in a sedition investigation that was widely condemned Monday as evidence of political leaders' ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court granted bail on Wednesday to a student arrested for alleged sedition in a case that led to mass protests and accusations the government is trying to stifle free ...