As the country is celebrating the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, the government of India, considering PM Narendra Modi's vision to shed colonial baggage has decided to reconsider various colonial laws.
The Supreme Court has received an application from Central Government for seeking some more time to file its response in the plea challenging Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which terms sedition criminal.
The Special Court under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act had three more accused in the Bhima Koregaon case seeking discharge from all charges against them in the 2018 case.
The Supreme Court has recently said that failure to pay rent may have civil consequences, but is not a penal offence under the Indian Penal Code, 1860, while quashing an FIR registered against a woman and others for allegedly not vacating a property in dispute.