27 MAY,2023.
27-05-2023
By Admin
Sedition and its roots in rudeness as an offence (PG 6)(GS 2)
27 MAY,2023.
•On March 30, the Lahore High Court annulled the offence of ‘sedition’ in the Pakistan Penal code.
•Embarrassingly, around the same time in India, the police registered a series of complaints in Delhi and in Ahmedabad, and also arrested several people, including owners of the printing presses involved, for posting antigovernment (and specifically, antiModi) posters across town.
•The detainees were not accused of ‘sedition,’ but were booked for criminal conspiracy to cause public mischief and to deface public property.
•The printing press is alleged to have breached some provision of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867.