The Supreme Court on November 22 said it will hear in January a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the IPC provision on sedition, months after the Centre introduced in Parliament bills to replace the colonial-era penal statutes, proposing among other things the repeal of the sedition law.
Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said he would constitute an appropriate Bench to hear the matter.
It appointed advocates S. Prasanna and Pooja Dhar as nodal counsel to facilitate the compilation of case laws and other statutory material before the hearing.
