'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.
'In a situation echoing recent incidents at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, two Tumakuru students from left-wing unions, who distributed pamphlets in support of the JNU movement, and got into an altercation with local Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) students, have been booked for sedition, after a complaint was filed by Srinivas, an alleged ABVP activist.
'More than a month after the controversy began in JNU over alleged ‘anti-national’ sloganeering in support of Kashmir, the branding of professors and students as ‘anti-national’ by certain media groups and political organisations like the ABVP continues. One of the latest targets of this campaign has been Nivedita Menon, a well-known political scientist and author of the book Seeing Like a Feminist.
'In a major turn of events, the Delhi police is said to have no evidence against former DU professor S.A.R. Geelani, who was recently arrested on sedition charges for allegedly organising and participating in an event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised in the Press Club of India here. A highly-placed source said that so far the police only has one video clip of the PCI event in which there was nothing to indicate that Mr Geelani had raised any slogans.
'Two lawyers filed complaints of sedition against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Allahabad and Varanasi on Wednesday while the party’s Assam unit lodged an FIR against the state BJP over its smear campaign against the leader. The complaint filed in an Allahabad district court alleged that Gandhi took an anti-national stand by supporting protesting JNU students and will be taken up on March 1.
'Police have arrested and charged with sedition a man from Kerala for allegedly making insulting comments on Facebook about Lt Col Niranjan E Kumar who was killed while defusing a bomb during a counter-terror operation at Punjab’s Pathankot air force base. Anwar Sadiq, 24, was arrested from his home in Malappuram town after the social media post sparked widespread outrage with many demanding immediate action and some prescribing “capital punishment”...'
'An advocate has filed a complaint in a Delhi court seeking prosecution of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘coward and psychopath.’ According to the complainant, Pradeep Kumar Dwivedi, Mr. Kejriwal had allegedly tweeted on his twitter handle on December 15 that ‘Modi is a coward and a psychopath’, reacting to the CBI raid at the office of the Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar, at the Delhi Secretariat in a corruption case.
'In an unprecedented move, the Government has invoked sedition charges against a Tamil news weekly 'Namadhu Manasatchi' for allegedly publishing a false and seditious report on public healthcare. According to a press statement, the complaint was filed following the publication of a “false, misleading and irresponsible news item” captioned "Kalavathi" (Expiry) in the weekly’s October, 28-November 3, 2015 edition alleging that expired medicines are supplied to the patients in Government Hospitals of Puducherry...'
'An FIR was registered against a former Delhi University professor Ashok Vohra, on Tuesday night, for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of Hindus during his speech at the Mohan Lal Sukhadia (MLS) University in Udaipur. On Tuesday evening several right-wing groups blocked the highway at Udaipur to pressurise the police into filing an FIR against the professor.
