Editorial

Indian Sedition Law

Indian Penal Code laga Section 124A deh sedition (government ke kelaaf korikena protest kora) nemide saja debole kanoon bonai kena ase. Indian Penal Code toh 1860 sal British Raj pithor deh bona laga ase. Code laga Chapter VL laga part Section 124A deh toh state ke kelaaf kora ke sajabole laga ase. Chapter VI deh melikena thaga sections toh 121 to 130 ase. Etu deh section 121A aro 124A toh 1870 sal deh suru howah laga ase. Etu bechide India deh British government toh Muslim preachers para government ke kelaaf korikena war olaidebo parae koikena bhoi howah thakishe. Pura Raj time deh etu section toh jola thakishe. Etu toh hoile national independence nemide activities lowah ke bechae kuribo nemide jola thakishe. Etu pithor deh Lokmanya Tilak aro Mahatma Gandhi be galdi howah paise aro tai jun ke be jail pithor deh thalideya thakishe.  Etu section para India laga independence nemide aro fre speech laga right ke dekthari pai thakishe.

Section 124A. Sedition deh kon hoilebe government ke kelaaf kora ke pura jevaan nemide saja dae nohoile etu nemide fine tak debole ola thakae.

Sedition deh mela section toh first code deh thakishe. Section 113, Thomas Babington Macaulay para Penal Code toh 1837 deh draft kora thakishe. Hoilebe karan toh najani nemide etu toh actual Code para hataideya thakishe. Last deh etu toh James Fitzjames Stephen laga suggestion nemide 1870 sal deh thala thakishe.

Wahabi activities otha aro Muslim preachers para Indian subcontinent deh religious war olabole laga bhoi nemide, Raj para etu section toh title “Exciting disaffection pithor deh ola ase.

1870 laga Stephen’s version toh 1898 laga IPC Amendment Act para amend korise. Aji kali laga section toh etu 1898’s section deh ektum melae. Hoilebe minor alterations toh India’s colonial aro post-colonial history laga alak alak points deh bonaise.

1951 deh Punjab High Court para Section 124A rule kora toh unconstitutional thakishe. Etu nesana rule toh Allahabad High Court para 1959 deh passed kora thakishe. Etu be free speech deh dekthari ola thakishe. Governor of India para India laga Supreme Court ke appeal kora toh government nohoile political parties ke kelaaf kora speech toh illegal nahoi.

21st century time deh alak alak notable authors, creative professionals, activists aro  politicians  toh Section 124A pithor laga sedition logode charged kora thakishe. Cases deh Praveen Togadia (2003), Simranjit Singh Mann (2005), Binayak Sen (2007), Arundhati Roy (2010), aro Aseem Trivedi (2012) be melikena thakishe.

Post-independence India deh Section 124A toh alak alak intervals deh kelaaf howah thakishe. 1951 deh Constitution of India laga First Amendment deh passed kora time deh Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru para Section 124A toh hataidebole plan kora thakishe. 2018 deh, Commission of India para consultation paper publish kora ke amendment nohoile law laga repeal nemide hotiya thakishe. 2019 general election time deh opposition Indian National Congress (INC) para tai khan laga manifesto deh Section 124A hatai debole plan kora thakishe. Hoilebe 2004-2014 time deh INC-led United Progressive Alliance khan power thaga time deh section toh enaga he thakishe aro alak alak citizens nemide file charges nemide jola thakishe. 2012-2013 time deh Tamil Nadu laga Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant  deh kelaaf kora protest kora thakishe. Etu time deh Section 123A pithor deh besi manu khan trial deh dekthari powah thakishe. Etu time deh 23,000 manu khan olob samai nemide jail saja powah thakishe aro etu laga ke 9,000 jun toh sedition pithor deh arrest howah thakishe.