Guwahati: The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Monday that government may modify the Indian Penal Code’s Section 124(A) of sedition during the approaching winter session of Parliament.
The appeals against the sedition statute were being heard by the top court.
In other cases where the sedition statute was being contested the Supreme Court also gave notice to the Centre. The cases contesting the constitutionality of the sedition statute were scheduled for consideration in the second week of January by the Supreme Court of India, which is presided over by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit.
According to Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code Sedition is a crime.
According to Supreme Court directives issued earlier in May the contentious sedition law will be put on hold until the government evaluates it and individuals in custody can apply for release.
According to an order from the Supreme Court the Indian Penal Code’s Section 124A, which makes sedition a crime must be suspended until the government’s exercise to review the law is finished.
The Central government and States were additionally directed not to record any proceedings under Section 124A by a bench that included Justices Hima Kohli, Surya Kant and then-Chairman of the Supreme Court of India NV Ramana.
If similar cases are filed in the future, the parties are free to approach the court and the court is required to quickly resolve them, the bench had said.
Additionally, the top court had stated that inmates who had already been arrested and charged under Section 124A IPC could apply for bail at the appropriate tribunals.
“It would be appropriate to put the provision on abeyance,” the bench had ordered.
The Supreme Court had stated that it would be reasonable not to apply Section 124A until further re-examination was completed, allowing the Central government to re-examine and rethink its contents.