{"id":246719,"date":"2023-06-06T19:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=246719"},"modified":"2023-06-06T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:25:34","slug":"law-panels-recommendations-on-sedition-law-stepping-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/law-panels-recommendations-on-sedition-law-stepping-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Law panel\u2019s recommendations on sedition law: Stepping backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cExpress View on Law panel\u2019s recommendations on sedition law: Stepping backwards \u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe Indian Express\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>6th June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> GS 2 &#8211; Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About retaining sedition law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:\u00a0The 22nd Law Commission has said that the sedition needs to be retained, but certain amendments could be made for greater clarity regarding its usage.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"What_is_Sedition\">What is Sedition?<\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Must read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sedition\/\">Section 124 A or Sedition law<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span id=\"What_are_the_Law_Commissions_recommendations_on_Sedition\">What are the Law Commission\u2019s recommendations for retaining sedition law?<\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Must read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sedition-law-can-be-retained-but-with-safeguards-law-commission\/\">Sedition law can be retained but with safeguards: Law Commission<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What are the reasons given by the committee for retaining sedition law?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a title=\"The reasons Law Commission gave while recommending a stronger sedition law\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-reasons-law-commission-gave-while-recommending-a-stronger-sedition-law\/\">The reasons Law Commission gave while recommending a stronger sedition law<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What should be done?<\/h2>\n<p>After initially defending the law, the Centre told the Court last year that it would review it.\u00a0 Prime Minister is on the view of shedding colonial baggage as the country marks 75 years of Independence. Accordingly, the Union Home Ministry in an affidavit asked the SC to defer the hearing till it is reviewed by a \u201ccompetent forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the Parliament must step in and must finish what it started (revoke sedition). This is essential in polarised times when the spaces for freedom of expression and the right to dissent seem endangered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExpress View on Law panel\u2019s recommendations on sedition law: Stepping backwards \u201d published in\u00a0\u201cThe Indian Express\u201d\u00a0on\u00a06th June 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 &#8211; Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Relevance: About retaining sedition law. News:\u00a0The 22nd&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/law-panels-recommendations-on-sedition-law-stepping-backwards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Law panel\u2019s recommendations on sedition law: Stepping backwards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-246719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702961424},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}