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Sedition: Enemy of the State

Between the State and an individual there are nuances that only an informed deliberation can shed light on their grey areas, but this is more of a nightmare, with respect to the Government of India resorting to sedition laws to exercise their power and control over the heterogenous public for reasons that are sometimes too gross or completely absurd in others. Fascism, Nazism and all forms of authoritarian systems come with a limited shelf-life. Prologue Sedition:  ‘attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government estab­lished by law in India.’ (Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860) When the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released the Crime in India 2021 report early September 2022, Assam tops the list of recording the highest number of sedition cases, with 69 cases or 14.52% of the total number, in India . Around the same time, there were also similar cases in Pakistan and Hong Kong. Out of the other oddities that are related to sedition cases, observers have ...

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