Criticising the Prime Minister is not sedition - Supreme Court quashed the sedition case against journalist Vinod Dua.

In a landmark judgement delivered today, the Supreme Court has quashed the sedition case filed against the reputed journalist, Vinod Dua. The charge against Vinod Dua is that, he had accused Prime Minister Modi of using “deaths and terror attacks” to get votes.  For this, a sedition (Desh droh) case has been filed against Vinod Dua. Whether criticising the Prime Minister is Desh droh? The Supreme Court has said "no" and has quashed the sedition case filed against Vinod Dua.  In the 1962 judgement, delivered in the Kedar Nath Singh case, the Supreme Court has ruled that, speeches and expressions can be termed as seditious, only if the speech is an ‘incitement’ to ‘violence’ or ‘public disorder’.