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The Supreme Court came into existence on 26 January 1950, the day the Constitution came into force. The first Chief Justice of the Supreme court was Justice H.J. Kania. Consisting of the Chief Justice of India and 30 other judges, it has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions. As the final court of appeal, the Supreme Court takes up appeals primarily against verdicts of the high courts of various states of the Union and other courts and tribunals. It safeguards fundamental rights of citizens and settles disputes between various governments in the country.
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Atleast the SC seems to have got it right. While the HCs seem focused on useless freedom of expression, liberty etc. as defined in the constitution, the Tilak Marg folks have the right focus on the importance of the 1870 dated sedition law in today’s India.
The Govt is India and India is govt. and His Excellency is India and India is His excellency, and they should be protected from criticism. Special thanks also to Thomas Macualay who added this very important law in 1870 to Indian Penal Code! As the American friend of His excellency will say, it’s very beautiful!
It’s surprising that some news channels are openly spreading hatred in country and no action is being taken against such channels even if FIR’. S are filed against them .
And action is being taken immediately towards the journalists who are actually doing serious JOURNALISM.
For making allegations that are unfounded, something has to be done to deter people from doing it though am not certain if Sedition Law is the right law for the same. If not Sedition then some other less severe law can be used, but such people has to know that making unfounded allegations is not tolerated & welcome by general public.
Although I have not watched the video in question, one cannot imagine Shri Vinod Dua calling upon Indians to pick up arms and overthrow the government by violent means. That is the bar the SC itself had set in 1962 for the charge of sedition to be invoked. Sedition is possibly one of the most frequently misused provisions of law to harass inconvenient people. It would have been good if the apex court had segregated this particular charge from the others and excluded it from further investigation. In my more romantic moments, have often believed that when faced with one of the more egregious instances of misuse of this colonial era law, the apex court itself will read down the section and declare it ultra vires of the Constitution of a democracy.