Here's an account of sedition cases - in terms of number, state-wise over the last ten years: <https://sedition.article-14.com/>.
Sukla On Wed, May 11, 2022, 14:35 Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > > *An* *update*: > <<"We hope and expect Centre and State Governments will refrain from > registering any FIR, continuing investigation, or taking coercive steps > under Section 124 A IPC when it is under reconsideration. It will be > appropriate not to use this provision of law till further re-examination is > over">> > > (Ref.: < > https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/breaking-supreme-court-urges-centre-states-to-refrain-from-registering-firs-invoking-section-124a-ipc-198810 > >.) > > Some spine, eventually. > > In case of a violation - in fact there may be too many, there'd be no > contempt case, but one would be able to approach the appropriate (local) > court - armed with this directive. > Understandably, no magic wand - as the law has neither been struck down > nor even read down. > Nonetheless, should make things decidedly easier. > > Sukla > > On Wed, May 11, 2022, 08:18 Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Evidently, the lofty(!!!) promise for reconsideration is only a trick to >> effectively kill the petition and, at the very least, get the present bench >> changed. >> >> Good that the Court has made bold to underline two very obvious and, >> also, most salient issues: >> I. What happens to the current cases? >> II. What happens in the interim? >> One can only hope that the Court won't relent. >> >> <<We will definitely take into consideration that you are doing a serious >> exercise of reconsideration of the law. We should not appear unreasonable… >> But there are concerns. One is about cases which are already pending. The >> other is the future misuse of Section 124A during the reconsideration. The >> Attorney-General has himself said there is abuse… How are you going to >> protect the interests of the people from this abuse while the >> reconsideration exercise is on,” Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana asked >> Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre. >> >> At one point, the court said the reconsideration process could not be an >> open-ended one. “How long will you take for the ‘reconsideration’ of the >> law,” Chief Justice Ramana asked. >> >> But Mr. Mehta was non-committal. “I may not be able to say. The process >> has started,” the law officer said. He urged the court to trust the earnest >> tone and spirit of the government’s affidavit which promised the >> re-examination of the law. “There is a serious application of mind,” the >> Solicitor-General assured the court.>> >> >> (Excerpted from: < >> https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-seeks-interim-protection-for-people-charged-with-sedition/article65401441.ece >> >.) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZgVhJp_ZbWVoRsnS4yX89JxHrkYgzT1QGfVa2QYLuMyEA%40mail.gmail.com.
