The Solicitor General was responding to a statement by Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on how former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to get rid of sedition law.
The Central government has told the Supreme Court that the 1962 verdict of the top court in Kedar Nath Singh vs State of Bihar upholding validity of Section 124A of the IPC on sedition is binding on a 3-judge bench.
Section 124A is used to suppress liberty and stifle voice of dissent, will raise this issue in Parliament as Member of Rajya Sabha, Pawar added during his examination before the Commission of Inquiry for the 2018 case.
Earlier CJI NV Ramana had observed that since the government had repealed so many outdated laws, was sedition still needed 75 years after independence.