Bidar court says no sedition in school play, grants bail to all

'Stating that the play staged by a school in Bidar, Karnataka, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act has “not caused any disharmony in the society”, a district and sessions court in Bidar has granted anticipatory bail to five management representatives of Shaheen Primary School in Bidar, whether the alleged seditious play was staged by children on January 21. The court cited lack of material for a prima facie case of sedition. In the anticipatory bail orders passed on March 3, the court held that “ingredients of Section 124A of IPC (sedition) are not prima facie made out’’...'