New Delhi, Sep 5 (Agencies): Sedition or defamation cases cannot be slapped on anyone criticising the government, the Supreme Court said on Monday in a clear message. “Someone making a statement to criticise the government does not invoke an offence under sedition or defamation law,” a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and U.U. To this, the bench said, “we don't have to explain the sedition law. “You have to file separate plea highlighting if any misuse of sedition law is there…There can't be any generalisation,” the bench said. The NGO cited an increase in sedition cases against intellectuals, activists, students, with the latest being the sedition charge on Amnesty India for organising a debate on Kashmir”.

Source: The Telegraph September 05, 2016 12:22 UTC