Advocate Poorva Patil & Advocate Jinisha Shah
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
ABSTRACT
The paper is a study on the law of sedition in India and its relevance today in contemporary Indian society. The authors have focused on the conditions prevailing during the British Rule which resulted in the initial enactment of the law on sedition and analysed the original provision and its subsequent amendment (as present today) for determining the reasons for the provision's enactment after independence, given its conflict with the fundamental right to Freedom of Speech and Expression. For this purpose, the paper has taken the support of the court’s interpretations in attempting to distinguish between seditious and non-seditious acts. The ultimate aim of the paper is to critically examine the legitimacy of the law, frequently posed as a potent threat to the constitutional ideals and civil rights.
