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In India, sedition law is the toolkit to suppress dissent and criticism

Text Size: A+ The case against climate activist Disha Ravi and others, contained in the pages of the bulky chargesheet hauled into court in a steel box, hinges on a single factor what constitutes sedition? Whether the acts of university students inside their campus in February 2016 amounted to subversion of the government by inciting a violent “revolution”? The law of sedition is authoritatively decided in the five-judge Constitution Bench judgment of the Supreme Court in Kedar Nath Singh versus State of Bihar in 1962. The law declared by the Bench still holds true but is seldom seen to be followed by trial

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