The Parliament has mildly reprimanded Team Anna with Speaker Meira Kumar reading out a statement saying any comment that lowered the dignity of Parliament was ...
05:46 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Lucknow: Human rights activist Binayak Sen said on Sunday that he will soon undertake a nationwide signature campaign to scrap the sedition law under which he was booked in Chattisgarh. Sen, who is also the vice president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), proposes to mobilise at least one million signatures that would be sent to parliament with a demand to repeal section 124 of the Indian Penal...
10:50 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Kolkata: Human rights activist Binayak Sen, released on bail by the Supreme Court after his conviction by a lower court for sedition, on Monday said sedition law should be "completely" repealed. "The laws of sedition in the country should be completely repealed," Sen said at a seminar on 'State of Freedom in Democracy' in Kolkata. "Though I have become a cause celebrity, there are thousands more like me who are...
12:54 PM, Aug 01, 2011
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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to Piyush Guha, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment along with civil rights activist Binayak Sen in a sedition case. The vacation bench of justices GS Singhvi and CK Prasad suspended the sentence of life imprisonment and directed Guha's release on bail. The bench also directed Guha to furnish a bail bond of Rs two lakh and two sureties...
12:30 PM, May 31, 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
New Delhi: The city police om Tuesday told a Delhi court that it was still probing the sedition case against hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and four others for making alleged anti-India speeches last year. The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Tilak Marg police station made this submission before Metropolitan Magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha in his latest probe status report filed in the...
07:24 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Speaking to CNN-IBN after being released from jail, Binayak Sen said he never gave up hope for getting justice. ...
11:30 PM, Apr 18, 2011
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Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan founder, Ramon Magsaysay award winner and National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy welcomed the Supreme Court's order to grant bail to ...
06:36 PM, Apr 18, 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
Rajdeep Sardesai asks a panel of experts, Is the sedition law in India outdated? ...
11:04 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Dr Binayak Sen was convicted of sedition and sentenced to life in prison. ...
08:22 PM, Apr 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Dr Binayak Sen, who has been convicted for sedition and sentenced to life by a Raipur court in Chhattisgarh. A bench comprising Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad passed the order on the petition moved by Sen challenging the order of Chhattisgarh High Court denying him bail. What is sedition? The section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) deals...
04:33 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Law minister Veerappa Moily says he has written to the law commission to re-look at the sedition law. ...
01:39 PM, Apr 15, 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
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