New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday welcomed the observation of the Supreme Court about the law of incitement and asked the center whether it was still needed 75 years after independence.
Worried about the “big abuse” of the criminal law of the colonial era, the Supreme Court bench led by the Chairman of the NV Judge Ramana asked the center why it did not revoke the provisions used by the Britons to “silenced” people like Mahatma Gandhi to suppress the freedom movement.
Some opposition leaders and civil society activists praised the APEX court for observation and expressed hope that the law would be “discarded”.
“We welcome this observation by the Supreme Court,” Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter.
The Supreme Court bench, who agreed to examine the request to challenge the concernity of section 124a (incitement) on the IPC, also issued a notification to the center.
“We don’t know why the government did not make a decision.
Your government has removed the laws of stale,” he said.
Provisions that are not proven to make any greetings or expressions are brought or strive to hate or insult or excite or try to stimulate dissatisfaction with the government stipulated by law in India “a crime that was sentenced to a sentence sentence of a life sentence.