The Supreme Court of India on July 21 sought a response of the Centre on a plea of RTI activist and independent Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi challenging the invocation of penal provision of sedition against him in a case related to anti-CAA protests.
Mr. Gogoi has also challenged the constitutional validity of Section 124A (Sedition) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
In a path-breaking order, the top court had on May 11 last year decided to put in abeyance the penal law on sedition till an “appropriate” government forum re-examined it and directed the Centre and States to not register any fresh FIR invoking the offence.
