Retention of sedition law with certain amendments by law commission

Friday, June 2. According to the Commission, headed by former Karnataka high court chief justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Section 124A should be amended to align it with the Supreme Court’s 1962 verdict in the Kedar Nath Case. According to section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, “Whoever by words, either...

After the MP Home Minister intervenes, a new investigation into the MP school poster controversy over the “hijab” is launched

When claims surfaced on Twitter that Hindu girls were being forced to wear the hijab by the school, the Damoh administration promptly looked into them, but they turned up no evidence. The Madhya Pradesh home minister, Narottam Mishra, ordered a thorough police investigation into a private school's poster congratulating 18...