Blow to Tukde gang: Home Ministry clarifies, 'No proposal to scrap Sedition law, it's required to combat anti-national elements'

With ongoing session of Rajya Sabha and discussion of various bill, Opposition on July 3 asked questions related to sedition law to Ministry of Home Affairs.

In time alloted for unstarred question, TRS MP Dr Banda Prakash asked two questions regarding scrapping of sedition law. Responding to his query, Nityanand Rai, Minister of State in Ministry of Home Affairs stated that re is proposal to scrap sedition law. 

TRS MP Prakash asked following question:

• Wher government is mulling to scrap sedition law which is a colonial era law applicable on free citizens of Republic?
• If so, by when and if t reasons refor,

Responding to unstarred questions, Rai said that re is proposal to scrap provision under  IPC dealing with  offence of Sedition. 

For second part of question "that if government is t planning to scrap it, n why is it so, he answered on behalf of Ministry of Home Affairs under Government of India:

"re is a need to retain provision to effectively combat anti-national and terrorist elements"

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Sedition as per Indian Penal Code (IPC) is section 124-A. It says that

 'Whoever, by words, eir spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or orwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards Government established by law in India' shall be punished with life imprisonment.

law was originally drafted by Thomas Macaulay. Recently, on June 30, CJM court issued direction to impose sedition charges on 44 people instigating violence in Chingravathi area of Bulandshahr on December 3 last year.

In ar case of sedition law, FIR has been registered under Sections 124 A (Sedition), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion), 500(defamation) and 505 (intent to incite) of Indian Penal Code and section 66 of IT Act, after a Varanasi-based lawyer Shashank Shekhar filed a complaint against   singer Hard Kaur for her comments on Uttar Presh Chief Minister Yogi ityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

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In what may be called most talked about case in recent past, Former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar along nine or were chargesheeted in JNU sedition case as main accused. Delhi Police h filed a 1,200-p charge sheet at Delhi's Patiala House Court in connection with JNU sedition case.

On February 9, 2016, anti-national slogans were allegedly raised on JNU campus during a programme called to protest against death sentence handed out to Afzal Guru, a convict in Parliament attack case, which led to a massive row.