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Cyber Bullying Law - Should India Follow Japan?
Updated : 1 week, 2 days ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 22 (ANI/GPRC): There is more than enough evidence to suggest that in addition to causing emotional scarring and other psychological damages, online abuse can actually lead a person to take their own life.
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NIA Court frames charges against five accused in terror funding case, disc
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): A Special National Investigation Agency Court has framed charges against five accused under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a terror funding case.
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Bombay HC grants bail to POCSO accused, says kissing prima facie not unnat
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): The Bombay High Court has observed that kissing would not prima facie constitute offence under section 377 (unnatural sex) of the Indian Penal Code while granting bail to an accused of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
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'Provision was abused to stifle free speech': Former A-G Mukul Rohatgi on
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Former Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi on Wednesday hailed Supreme Court's order on Sedition Law terming it 'bold and historical'.
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SC keeps in abeyance sedition law till review; asks Centre, States not to
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New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): In a historic development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises the offence of sedition be kept in abeyance till the government's exercise of reviewing the law is complete.
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Centre defends sedition law in SC, says requires no reconsideration
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New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): The Central government has told the Supreme Court that the 1962 verdict of the five-judge Constitution bench case which upheld the validity of the offence of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, is binding and continues to be a "good law an
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Jignesh Mevani gets three months jail term over 2017 Mehsana rally in Guja
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Mehsana (Gujarat) [India], May 5 (ANI): Gujarat court on Thursday has sentenced Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and 12 others to three months imprisonment and a fine under section 143 Indian Penal Code (IPC) over a 2017 case of carrying out Azadi march without permission.
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SC to decide whether larger bench should hear pleas challenging sedition l
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New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it will first decide the issue of whether the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the offence of sedition under Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code should be referred to a larger bench or not.
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Sharad Pawar decries police slapping sedition cases against activists
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 5 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar decried the police actions to slap Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code against activists, saying that such measures suppress liberty and stifle any voice of dissent raised in a peaceful and
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Loudspeaker row: MNS leaders Sandeep Deshpande, Santosh Dhuri booked
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 5 (ANI): Amid the loudspeaker row, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leaders Sandeep Deshpande and Santosh Dhuri have been booked on Wednesday under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including assault to deter a public servant from discharge of duty, said
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Centre seeks more time to file reply on pleas challenging Constitutional v
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): The Central government on Wednesday filed an application in the Supreme Court that seeks one more week to submit its response to a batch of petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of the offence of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code
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SC posts cases challenging constitutional validity of sedition law for fin
Updated : 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday posted to May 5 for the final hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the offence of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code.
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