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Amid a clamour for repeal of the law on sedition, Law Commission chairman Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi on June 27 said the present situation from Kashmir to Kerala and Punjab to the North-East makes it must to retain the law to safeguard the "unity and integrity of India".Defending the ...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday described the Law Commission’s recommendations backing the sedition law as “shocking” and said this must be “resisted” as the law is already grossly “misused”. The former Union minister’s remarks came after the Law Commission proposed retaining the penal provision for ...

New Delhi: The Law Commission has proposed retaining the penal provision for the offence of sedition, saying repealing it altogether can have serious adverse ramifications for the security and integrity of the country, prompting a push back by the Congress amid government assertion that the recommendations were “persuasive” and ...

Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan claimed on Monday that the country’s powerful military establishment has planned to keep him in jail for the next 10 years under sedition charges. In a series of tweets in the early hours of Monday, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief said: “So ...

Lahore : Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan claimed on Monday that the country’s powerful military establishment has planned to keep him in jail for the next 10 years under sedition charges.In a series of tweets in the early hours of Monday, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief said: “So ...

LAHORE: Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan claimed on Monday that the country's powerful military establishment has planned to keep him in jail for the next 10 years under sedition charges and vowed to fight against the 'assortments of crooks' till the last drop of his blood.Khan is likely ...

Imran Khan claimed that military establishment has planned to keep him in jail for the next 10 years under sedition charges Published Date - 10:00 AM, Mon - 15 May 23 File Photo Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan claimed on Monday that the country’s powerful military establishment ...

On March 30, a single-judge bench of the Lahore High Court struck down Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code – the provision dealing with sedition. It said that the law went against Pakistan’s fundamental right to free speech and expression. “Section 124-A in its current form, cannot stand ...

Ruling says the colonial-era law, which governments have used against their political opponents, is ‘unconstitutional’.A court in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore has struck down a colonial-era sedition law, calling it “inconsistent” with the constitution, in a verdict hailed by free speech advocates and journalists. A single-judge bench of ...

The Lahore High Court on Thursday struck down Pakistan’s colonial-era sedition law, saying that it is inconsistent with the country’s Constitution, Dawn reported.Justice Shahid Karim annulled Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code, which criminalises sedition, in response to a batch of petitions arguing that the law has been ...