The Supreme Court has listed on April 27 two petitions challenging the constitutionality of the sedition law.
The petitions, one by retired Army general S.G. Vombatkere and the other by Editors Guild of India, have been listed for hearing before a three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana. The other two judges on the Bench are Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli.
Last year, the CJI had voiced what could be an unprecedented judicial criticism of the way sedition was used by the government to crush liberties. The Chief Justice had questioned why a colonial law used against Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak continued to survive in the law book after 75 years of Independence.
