Why you are keeping the colonial Sedition Law used against Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak? Supreme Court questions the Government.

The British Imperialists used the Sedition Law to punish freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Why the Government is still using this Sedition Law to suppress voices of dissent? A Bench consisting of Justice N.V. Ramana, Justice A.S. Bopanna and Justice Hrishikesh Roy has raised this question to the Central Government. For the last 75 years after independence, this Sedition Law has been misused by various governments to suppress the voices of dissent. According to the NCRB, 559 persons were arrested under the Sedition Law between 2014 and 2019. However, only 10 of them were convicted. This shows that, the governments arrest citizens, by misusing the Sedition Law. This misuse of the Sedition Law, by the government is being questioned by the Supreme Court now.

[Source: Times of India, dated July 16, 2021]