Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan’s NGO Common Cause and anti-nuclear activist SP Uday Kumar have moved the Supreme Court asking it to lay down guidelines to stop increasing misuse of sedition law in the country. The petition, filed on Wednesday, comes a day after a sedition case was registered against Amnesty International India after one of its employees allegedly shouted anti-India slogans during an event on Kashmir in Bengaluru. Quoting official statistics, the petitioners revealed that in 2014, 58 persons were arrested and 47 cases of sedition were registered across the country. The plea submitted that there has been a spurt in the number of sedition cases against intellectuals, activists and students. Of the 58 persons arrested two years ago only one was convicted, the petitioners claimed.

Source: Hindustan Times August 17, 2016 16:23 UTC