 | I will ensure repeal of sedition law: Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant SinhaThe veteran leader, who took four more oaths, requested his opponent Droupadi Murmu, candidate of the BJP-led NDA alliance, to make a similar announcement. |
 | Voice of truth can’t be supressed any longer: OppositionAll parties welcome Supreme Court ruling, demand that the law should be scrapped even before Centre’s review exercise |
 | Welcome stay on sedition law, now send it to the shredderThat Justice Ramana does not have too much time he is due to retire on August 26 must have weighed on the judicial minds when the Bench sought to expedite the hearing. |
 | SP-rank officer can monitor registration of sedition FIRs: Centre suggests SCCentre told SC that it would send guidelines, if approved, to states and union territories for preventing abuse by ensuring that FIR in sedition cases would be registered only after SP is satisfied. |
 | Would be appropriate not to continue use of sedition law till reexamination completed by Centre: SCThe Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that all pending trials, appeals and proceedings with respect to the charge framed under the sedition law be kept in abeyance till the re-examination |
 | SC sedition order must be viewed in context of government's positive suggestions: BJPParty spokesperson Nalin Kohli noted that the Modi government has so far removed over 1,500 archaic and obsolete laws and over 25,000 compliances to make citizens' lives easier. |
 | As SC puts on hold sedition law, Rijiju talks of Lakshman RekhaThe bench, also comprising justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohil, directed the Centre and states to not register any fresh FIR invoking sedition charges until the sedition law is "under reconsideration". |
| Sedition law: Guidelines must be put in place to avoid misuse, says legal fraternity in KeralaThe apex court on Wednesday put on hold the colonial-era law and directed the government not to file new FIRs till it was re-examined |
 | Voice of truth can no longer be suppressed: Congress after SC stays proceedings in sedition cases"We fought against the British, the sedition law was heaped upon the crores and lakhs of Congressmen by the British and that law needs to go now," Cong spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said. |
| What about existing 124A cases, asks SC to Centre on sedition lawSenior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioners, said people are being arrested because of this provision and this would not be right for them. |
 | SC asks Centre how it will deal with pending and future sedition cases till it reconsiders lawThe central govt in a fresh affidavit before the SC had said that it has decided to reconsider and re-examine the provision (Section 124A of Indian Penal Code, 1860) dealing with the sedition law |
 | In a 180-degree-turn, Modi government offers to review sedition law on its ownIn the Kedar Nath Singh vs State of Bihar case in 1962, a Constitution bench had upheld the sedition law. |
| Will reconsider provisions of sedition law: Centre tells Supreme Court in climbdownThe central government in an affidavit has said that it is committed to maintaining and protecting the sovereignty of the nation as well as removing outdated colonial laws |
 | Good, lord! Modi government in defence of colonial-era sedition lawThe colonial-era law, universally seen as draconian, has come up before the Supreme Court. The Centre has argued that it’s a good law and the only point to ponder is how to prevent its misuse |
 | Centre defends sedition law in Supreme Court, says requires no reconsiderationThe Supreme Court, in 1962, had upheld the validity of the sedition law while attempting to restrict its scope for misuse. |
| Supreme Court to hear Arun Shourie's plea challenging sedition law on May 5The plea elaborates that whether a speech will cause disorder or not depends not only on its content but also on the nature of the listener, his opportunities and the state of the country at the time |
| SC to hold final hearing of pleas challenging constitutional validity of sedition law on May 5The top court will be hearing pleas by the Editors Guild of India, former army officer Major General SG Vombatkere and several others that have challenged this provision in the IPC |
 | Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging constitutionality of sedition law on April 27Several pleas challenging the colonial law are pending before the top court. |
