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Open question
How did a colonial speech crime outlive the colony by seventy-five years?
Sedition, from Tilak to the Abeyance Order
Scope
Section 124A from the colonial trials through Kedar Nath to its suspension in 2022 and its successor provision.
Authorities to start from
- Queen-Empress v. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, ILR (1898) 22 Bom 112
- Niharendu Dutt Majumdar v. King-Emperor, AIR 1942 FC 22
- Kedar Nath Singh v. State of Bihar, AIR 1962 SC 955
- S.G. Vombatkere v. Union of India, (2022) 7 SCC 433
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