With the Law Commission backing the sedition law, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Saturday said the panel's recommendation was a case of the "doctor prescribing a cure that is worse than the disease".
The former Home Minister said a draconian law in the statute book was an invitation to the rulers to misuse it and this hypothesis had been proved many times over.
Mr. Chidambaram's assertion came after the Law Commission backed the penal provision for the offence of sedition, saying repealing it altogether could have serious adverse ramifications for the country's security and integrity.
