To say that Dr Binayak Sen did not get a fair trial may be wrong but the outrage over his conviction under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for sedition is justified.
With sedition having been inserted in the penal code during the colonial rule primarily to bar criticism of the government, the provision virtually lost its relevance after Independence. So much so, that our constitution makers took a conscious decision to omit any reference to " sedition'' in our Constitution.
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Sedition was proposed as one of the grounds on which the fundamental right
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