Constitutional Validity Of Sedition Law In India: Hate Speech v National Security

The word 'Sedition' comes from the Latin word 'seditio', meaning 'going apart'. Sedition,as it means today, was established in the Era of Elizabeth. The laws of sedition were brought in force in the seventeenth century by England. This was done as free speech was considered a threat to the Monarchy. The then lawmakers, in order to make sure that only good opinion of the government is circulated brought introduced sedition laws which were then implemented by the Britishers for the same purpose during their reign in India. This law was used to clamp down voices against the British Empire.

The sedition law in India, as embodied under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, has been a debate and in controversy. While this law was first brought in by the British colonial regime to crush the independence movement and freedom fighters, in independent India, it has been used and misused a number of times against a diverse range of dissenters and oppositions. This paper