Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday came out in support of jailed cartoonist Aseem Trivedi but also gave him a sharp rap on the knuckles.
While contending that the sedition charge slapped by Mumbai police on the cartoonist was a bit too much, Thackeray also pulled up Trivedi for his cartoons mocking the Indian national emblem, constitution and Parliament.
In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, Thackeray said: "Trivedi has definitely insulted these national symbols, but labeling him as a traitor and jailing him under sedition charge is not proper."
Drawing a parallel, Thackeray said terrorist Afzal Guru who attacked Parliament 11 years ago continues to enjoy government hospitality though he has been sentenced to death, while Trivedi who merely drew a cartoon was being hauled up for sedition....
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02:07 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Mumbai: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was released from Arthur Road Jail on Wednesday afternoon after he accepted the conditional bail offered by the Bombay High Court. Trivedi was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 5,000. Refusing to bow down to the pressure, Trivedi as soon as he stepped out of the Mumbai jail said, "Our fight will continue till the time the government continues to curb freedom of expression."...
01:31 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Sources tell CNN-IBN the Maharashtra government is likely to drop the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi. ...
06:01 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: The arrest of Aseem Trivedi on sedition charges for his cartoons on Monday gave BJP fresh ammunition to target the UPA, even as the government said it was against censorship but wanted citizens to respect national symbols. BJP alleged that while the UPA government was involved in corruption cases like coal mines allocation, it was attacking democratic institutions and free speech as seen in the targeting of the...
10:51 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi's arrest has the nation in outrage. Some, however, feel that the artist went a bit far when he disrespected the national emblem. ...
03:24 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Now that Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been charged with sedition for his cartoons that 'mocked' the country's political class, Parliament and the national emblem, one has to bear in mind that the word "sedition" does not actually figure anywhere in the Indian Constitution. It is an offence against the state as enumerated in the Indian Penal Code which is an 1860 Act ratified by the British to...
12:07 PM, Sep 10, 2012
While the Press Council has called the charges against the cartoonist ridiculous, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that police custody was not needed. ...
11:23 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Muzaffarpur: A local court on Monday accepted a complaint seeking to register a case of sedition against Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh for allegedly describing Yoga guru Ramdev as a 'fraud'. Chief Judicial Magistrate R C Malviya accepted the complaint filed by advocate Sudhir Ojha who sought to book Singh under section 154(A) (sedition), 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 504...
12:21 PM, Jun 06, 2011
London: The plight of Binayak Sen, the social activist slapped with controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the problems faced by India's adivasis, Cambridge University researchers studying his case have said. A study on the case of the Indian public health expert, recently bailed from prison, by Department of Sociology Jonathan Kennedy and Lawrence King researchers has been published in the latest edition of Social Science and Medicine. They argue...
05:52 PM, May 25, 2011
Raipur: Rights activist Binayak Sen is all set to walk out of Raipur central jail on Monday. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of sedition by a trial court in Chhattisgarh last December. The Supreme Court, however, granted him bail on Friday, while throwing out the sedition charge. Illina Sen, Binayak's wife says that they will continue the work they have been doing until now, but it...
12:30 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Swami Agnivesh says its a happy day for all social activists in the country as the Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen on Friday. The Supreme Court also said there was no case of sedition against Sen. ...
01:32 PM, Apr 15, 2011
New Delhi: All eyes are on the Binayak Sen trial which is on Friday, as the Supreme Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on his bail plea. The trial has attracted international attention. Dr Binayak Sen, a gold medallist from CMC, Vellore and a human rights activist has been convicted for sedition and sentenced to life. While the state claims that Dr Sen is a Maoist conduit, his supporters...
07:19 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Sedition, a non-bailable offence has a minimum sentence of three years. ...
09:32 AM, Apr 10, 2009
