Scrapping the sedition law: Restoring the safe valve democracy, writes Olav Albuquerque

Dissent is a safety valve of democracy and if the law can be misused against intellectuals like Binayak Sen who was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition in 2010, it will always be misused against dissenters. That is why the law of sedition must be scrapped.

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