A Century After Gandhi's Trial, Sedition law is Still Being Gravely Misused
A century after Mahatma Gandhi's iconic Sedition trial, the number of sedition cases on those raising their voice against injustice have gone up.
A century after Mahatma Gandhi's iconic Sedition trial, the number of sedition cases on those raising their voice against injustice have gone up. Various studies have shown how this number grew sharply after 2014, when the Narendra Modi-led BJP government came to power. In this episode of Itihaas ke Panne, journalist and author Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay takes a look at ways in which the sedition law continues to be misused to silence dissent.
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