Section 124A: Time to Amend or Annul?
“Section 124A, under which I am happily charged, is perhaps the prince among the political sections of the Indian Penal Code designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen.”
The above statement by Mahatma Gandhi on being charged under section 124A of IPC in 1922 vehemently summarizes the understanding freedom fighters had pertaining to the defiance law. Sedition, an offence under Section 124 A, being a colonial relic continues to be a part of Indian Penal Code post-independence. Recently in news, post imposition on hundreds of protestors around the country, the section demands scrutiny to assess its ....
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