Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Challenging Sedition Law In January

Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said he would constitute an appropriate bench to hear the matter.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear in January a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the IPC provision on sedition, months after the Centre introduced in Parliament bills to replace the colonial-era penal statutes, proposing among other things the repeal of the sedition law.

Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said he would constitute an appropriate bench to hear the matter.

It appointed advocates Prasanna S and Pooja Dhar as nodal counsel to facilitate the compilation of case laws and other statutory material before the hearing.