MURL welcomes the comment of Hon'ble Chief Justice of Supreme Court on sedition law
The Chief Justice has sent a clear signal that Section 124A (sedition)
of the Indian Penal Code may have passed ~s time. The CJI has made ~ clear that
the court is sensitive to the public demand to judicially review the manner in
which law enforcement authorities are using the sedition law to control free
speech and send jounalists. activists and dissenters to jail. and keep them
there.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.Y. Ramana on Wednesday listed the case for hearing on July 15 and asked Major-General S.G. Vombatkere (retd.), represented by advocates P.B. Suresh and S. Prasanna. to serve a copy of his petition to Attorney General KK. Venugopal.
The advocate of petitioner Me. Kumar had referred to the sedition cases registered against 'climate activist' Disha Ravi. filmmaker Aisha Sultana and Journalist Vinod Dua and Siddique Kappan.
The time has gone wilen mere criticism of governments was enough to constitute sedition. The judgment said that the right to honest and appropriate criticism is a source of strength rather than a weakness of a community.
Giving importance to this decision of the Supreme Court. secular political parties should raise their voice to repeal the Sedition Act and pressurise the BJP and rts allies to repeal it.
MURL calls upon pordical and human rights defending organisations and social organisations
to be a part of this campaign against the unconstitutional laws.
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