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Sedition law: State and Its dissidents

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As many as 47 sedition cases were reported in 2014 across nine states, according to the National Crime Records Bureau

The 156-year-old colonial-era sedition law, used against arrested Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the students' union, Jawaharlal Nehru University, has been discarded by the UK (where punishment once included chopping ears), South Korea and Indonesia.

Kumar was sent to judicial custody for 14 days, amid violence within and outside a Delhi court room, after being booked under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which does not actually use the word 'sedition'.

Sedition in India not unconstitutional: 47 cases in 2014

As many as 47 sedition cases were reported in 2014 across nine states, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
 
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In recent years, those arrested on this charge include a cartoonist, also for cheering Pakistan in a cricket match, a Gujarati caste-group leader and a Kerala man for a Facebook post. Most of those charged were not violent or had not incited violence, a requisite for a sedition charge.

72% of all India's sedition cases from Jharkhand and Bihar

Jharkhand reported the highest number of cases (18), followed by Bihar (16), Kerala (5), Odisha (2) and West Bengal (2). Jharkhand and Bihar accounted for 72% of all cases in 2014.