The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a batch of petitions challenging the colonial-era penal law today nearly after putting the same on hold 7 months ago. 

The Central Government would apprise the court of the developments in the law after re-examining the same. The Court had decided to put the penal sedition law on hold by its order date 11.05.2022 till an appropriate government forum examines it and also directed the Central Government as well as the State Governments not to register any fresh FIRs invoking offense under this law.

The petitions were mentioned before the bench led by the Chief Justice of India of which justice PS Narasimha is also a member and the court directed the listing of all 12 matters including the petition filed by the Editors' Guild. 

The Sedition Law which provides for a maximum jail term of life under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code for creating "disaffection towards the government" was inducted in the IPC about 57 years before the independence.

Case Details:-

Writ Petition (C) No. 682/2021

D. SRINIVASA RAO
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UNION OF INDIA AND ORS