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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 326 sedition cases were filed during 2014-19

326 sedition cases were filed during 2014-19

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published Published on Jul 18, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 19, 2021

-The Hindu/ PTI

Charge sheets were filed in 141 cases while just six people were convicted for the offence during the period.

A total of 326 cases were registered in the country under the controversial colonial-era penal law on sedition between 2014 and 2019 in which just six persons were convicted.

The Supreme Court last week observed that Section 124A of the IPC — offence of sedition — has been enormously misused and asked the Centre why it was not repealing the provision used by the British to “silence” people like Mahatma Gandhi to suppress the freedom movement.

According to the Union Home Ministry data, a total of 326 cases were registered under the sedition law between 2014 and 2019, with the highest 54 cases in Assam.

Out of these cases, charge sheets were filed in 141 cases while just six people were convicted for the offence during the six-year period.

The data of 2020 had not been compiled by the Ministry yet, officials said.

In Assam, out of the 54 sedition cases registered, chargesheets were filed in 26 cases and trials were completed in 25 cases.

However, there has not been a single conviction in the State in any of the cases between 2014 and 2019, the data say.

Jharkhand has registered 40 cases under Section 124A of the IPC during the six years. Chargesheets were filed in 29 cases and trial was completed in 16 cases in which just one person has been convicted.

In Haryana, 31 cases were registered under the sedition law in which chargesheets were filed in 19 cases. Trial was completed in six cases in which just one person has been convicted.Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala have registered 25 cases each.

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The Hindu/ PTI, 18 July, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/326-sedition-cases-were-filed-during-2014-19/article35398559.ece?homepage=true


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