Maharashtra Sedition

The Maharashtra police have dropped the charge of sedition from the case registered against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for writing an alleged objectionable article against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.

A PIL seeking the registration of an FIR against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, minister Aaditya Thackeray and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut for sedition and breach of public peace was filed in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday.

Independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana on Wednesday filed a complaint with Delhi Police alleging that she received multiple life threatening calls.

Independent lawmakers Navneet and Ravi Rana on Saturday recited the Hanuman Chalisa at the Hanuman temple and claimed to have prayed for removal of the "biggest danger looming over Maharashtra in the form of Shiv Sena".

Slapped with sedition charge, independent MP from Maharashtra Navneet Rana has written a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, saying her arrest by Mumbai cops was illegal and alleging "inhuman treatment" in police custody.

Kalicharan Maharaj, a Hindu religious leader from Maharashtra who insulted Mahatma Gandhi and praised his assassin, Nathuram Godse, has been arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho and charged with sedition.

The Mumbai Police are searching for a Tata Institute of Social Sciences student, Urvashi Chudawala, against whom a sedition case has been filed for shouting slogans in support of jailed JNU student Sharjeel Imam at an LGBTQ event in the Maharashtra capital.

In the five days since he was freed from a jail in Gujarat, Hardik Patel has been short on down time. He was given 48 hours to leave the state - a condition set by the court for his bail. Before then, he says, he toured 14 districts and met 40 lakh people.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse to be booked under sedition for his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today dubbed former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse a "traitor" for his alleged conversation with Dawood Ibrahim, while coming out in support of Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is lodged in jail over alleged sedition charges.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today said that the BJP should not issue "certificates of patriotism" by politicising the issue of alleged sedition in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

In the wake of huge outcry by the civil society over the Maharashtra government's definition of sedition, the state told the Bombay High Court today that it has withdrawn its circular on the subject.

The Bombay High Court today restrained Maharashtra government from acting on its August 27 circular issued to prevent misuse of section 124A of IPC which deals with sedition till the state files a reply to two petitions challenging the constitutional validity thereof.

A Maharashtra government order on sedition that banned any criticism of the government or politicians was put on hold by a court today.

A government circular in Maharashtra that rewords court guidelines to project a harsher view on what constitutes sedition has provoked outrage in the state.

The Maharashtra police have dropped the charge of sedition from the case registered against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for writing an alleged objectionable article against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.

A PIL seeking the registration of an FIR against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, minister Aaditya Thackeray and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut for sedition and breach of public peace was filed in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday.

Independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana on Wednesday filed a complaint with Delhi Police alleging that she received multiple life threatening calls.

Independent lawmakers Navneet and Ravi Rana on Saturday recited the Hanuman Chalisa at the Hanuman temple and claimed to have prayed for removal of the "biggest danger looming over Maharashtra in the form of Shiv Sena".

Slapped with sedition charge, independent MP from Maharashtra Navneet Rana has written a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, saying her arrest by Mumbai cops was illegal and alleging "inhuman treatment" in police custody.

Kalicharan Maharaj, a Hindu religious leader from Maharashtra who insulted Mahatma Gandhi and praised his assassin, Nathuram Godse, has been arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police from Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho and charged with sedition.

The Mumbai Police are searching for a Tata Institute of Social Sciences student, Urvashi Chudawala, against whom a sedition case has been filed for shouting slogans in support of jailed JNU student Sharjeel Imam at an LGBTQ event in the Maharashtra capital.

In the five days since he was freed from a jail in Gujarat, Hardik Patel has been short on down time. He was given 48 hours to leave the state - a condition set by the court for his bail. Before then, he says, he toured 14 districts and met 40 lakh people.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse to be booked under sedition for his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today dubbed former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse a "traitor" for his alleged conversation with Dawood Ibrahim, while coming out in support of Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is lodged in jail over alleged sedition charges.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today said that the BJP should not issue "certificates of patriotism" by politicising the issue of alleged sedition in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

In the wake of huge outcry by the civil society over the Maharashtra government's definition of sedition, the state told the Bombay High Court today that it has withdrawn its circular on the subject.

The Bombay High Court today restrained Maharashtra government from acting on its August 27 circular issued to prevent misuse of section 124A of IPC which deals with sedition till the state files a reply to two petitions challenging the constitutional validity thereof.

A Maharashtra government order on sedition that banned any criticism of the government or politicians was put on hold by a court today.

A government circular in Maharashtra that rewords court guidelines to project a harsher view on what constitutes sedition has provoked outrage in the state.