By Online Desk
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has “decided to re-examine and reconsider the provisions of section 124A Sedition law.
On Saturday the Centre had defended in the Supreme Court the penal law on sedition and the 1962 verdict of a constitution bench upholding its validity, saying they have withstood “the test of time” about six decades and the instances of its abuse would never be a justification of reconsideration.
Concerned by the widespread misuse of the sedition law, the top court in July last year had asked the union government why it was not repealing the provision used by the British to silence people like Mahatma Gandhi.
(More details awaited)
