The Supreme Court gave the Centre 24 hours to respond on whether it will issue orders to all states and union territories to put sedition proceedings on hold till the government’s scheduled exercise of reviewing Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is finished. On Wednesday, the Centre will respond.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court agreed to the Centre’s request to postpone the case until the sedition statute was re-examined. Earlier, the court asked the Centre’s solicitor general, Tushar Mehta, how long it would take to rethink the sedition statute and how the government would deal with its misuse.
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