The incident comes amid a heated nationwide debate over the sedition law following charges against Amnesty India for alleged “anti-national” slogans chanted at a Bengaluru event against mounting casualties in Kashmir on August 13. The case was filed on a complaint by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the RSS. In February, sedition charges were filed against Jawaharlal Nehru University students for alleged “anti-national” chants at an event, sparking widespread protests. Activists say the sedition law is vague and often used to crack down on dissent. The law also presents a difficulty for the Congress, which publicly backed the JNU students but rules Karnataka that brought the sedition charges against Amnesty India.

Source: Hindustan Times August 23, 2016 07:59 UTC