Kedar Nath Singh Judgment, 1962

June 5, 2021

Supreme Court of India has quashed the FIR lodged against a senior journalist for sedition charge and other offences. In that, the court held that the Journalists need protection against sedition charges.
In Kedar Nath Singh v. State of Bihar (1962), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the sedition law.
The Court said that sedition is a reasonable restriction on free speech as provided in Article 19(2) of the Constitution.
However, the court made it clear that a citizen has the right to say or write whatever she/he likes about the government or its measures.
But this is only as long as he/she does not incite people to violence against the government and not do things with the intention of creating public disorder.