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Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves and lawyer Tanima Kishore, appearing for the petitioner, contended that many countries, including England that had introduced sedition law in India, have scrapped the penal provision pertaining to the offence and pleaded the court to re-examine the law in the present context. They alleged that the validity of Section 124A was upheld by the apex court in 1962 since the need of the hour then was to prevent the public violence and public disorder stopping short of waging war against the state. “Section 124-A, was, at the time a necessary tool in crime control. It is conceivable that if sedition had been held unconstitutional in 1962, there may have been a lacuna in the law, the mischief public disorder and violence going unpunished. Contrastingly, in 2021, this is not the case. The last nearly 60 years have seen extensive enactment of new legislations dealing directly with safety and security, public disorder and terrorism. Prominent among these ar

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