'An FIR was registered on Monday against Amnesty International India under various IPC sections, including sedition, in connection with alleged raising of “independence” slogans by “pro-freedom” Kashmiris who entered into heated arguments with a Kashmiri Pandit leader for hailing Indian Army. A police official involved in the investigation said that a First Information Report has been registered and investigations will proceed.
'In their home in Sopore, the parents of 25-year old Tawseef Ahmad Bhat helplessly seek their son’s release. Tawseef was arrested by police in India and charged with sedition for speaking against Indian rule in Kashmir and endorsing Kashmir’s independence on his Facebook account. “Our son is just 25. Simply because he shared a post on social media the police has arrested him and kept him in confinement! We cannot understand why a grave charge of sedition has been slapped on him,” Inam-ul-Bhat, Tawseef’s brother told Kashmir Reader...'
'CHHATTISGARH Police on Thursday arrested a Kashmiri man and booked him on charges of sedition for commenting on, forwarding and “liking” several “anti-India” posts on a social networking site. Police said that Taufiq Ahmed, who had studied in Bhilai and now worked in the city, was arrested from a train at Sagar railway station in Madhya Pradesh and sent to judicial custody. They added that an FIR in the case had been registered based on a complaint from Ratan Yadav, the Bhilai coordinator of Bajrang Dal...'
'A 65-YEAR-OLD man from Kishtwar district of Jammu region has been booked on sedition charges in two separate FIRs for allegedly raising anti-India slogans during protests against the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. Four others were also booked in the second FIR along with Saif-ud-Baghwan, 65, for allegedly raising anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans in the presence of Hindu pilgrims...'
'Eager to cut down on criticism of its governments and policies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre has issued new draft rules for bureaucrats. While allowing bureaucrats to be active on social media, it prevents them from saying anything critical of the government, including its policies and actions. According to the draft issued by the Department of Personnel and Training, officials will be barred from criticising the government through any means, including humorous devices like caricatures.
'A group of protestors in Patna, gathered in support of Zakir Naik and Owaisi, were charged with sedition after they allegedly raised pro-Pakistan slogan during the protest...'
'Data available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show that Kerala is at the top of the ‘Crimes against the State’ list in the country, even as recent reports of Malayali youths forging ties with terrorist organisations like the Islamic State (IS) evoked some knee-jerk reactions from across the State... The crime statistics published by the NCRB show that 72 cases of crime against the state were registered in Kerala in 2014, the highest in the country.
'Professor B.P. Mahesh Guru, a professor of journalism at the University of Mysore, was arrested on June 17 for making “anti-Ram” comments. The Dalit professor was arrested for an incident that occurred last year, when he apparently criticised the Hindu God for being unjust to Sita. “Ram of Ramayana had violated human rights. He suspected Sita’s fidelity and victimised her. I see this as a violation of human rights,” Guru had said, according to reports. He has been teaching at the university since 1999. Guru has spoken up against those in power before.
'A day after the Punjab and Haryana high court imposed an interim stay on the reservation to jats and five other communities, Haryana Police on Friday booked All India Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) president Yashpal Malik under sedition charges for giving provoking speech in Jind town on Wednesday...'
'Even as the Narendra Modi government begins celebrations for its second anniversary on May 26, a report released by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday accused the government for silencing dissent by routinely using 'draconian' laws such as the sedition provisions of the penal code, the criminal defamation law, and laws dealing with hate speech to silence dissent.
