Supreme Court Constitution Bench To Examine Validity Of Sedition Law
By Ritika Jain In a significant development, the Supreme Court referred the batch of pleas challenging the validity of the sedition law to a Constitution Bench of “at least five judges”. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said the bench would also decide if the top court’s 1962 verdict upholding the sedition law required reconsideration. A larger bench was needed because the Kedarnath judgment was delivered by a five-judge bench. It would be inappropriate for any bench of a smaller composition to decide on this issue, the top judge observed. The Kedarnath Singh judgment was decided on a nar...