Limit AFSPA to specific missions, says retd Maj-Gen Vombatkere

The controversy over the Armed Forces Special Powers Act has been raging for several years. The act's opponents argue that soldiers use the legal protection they enjoy under the Act as a cover to......

Why this Army veteran wants sedition law to go

Retired Major General S G Vombatkere, who has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutionality of Section 124 A (Sedition) of the IPC, said on Friday everyone knows what is happening with......

SC to hear pleas against validity of colonial era sedition law on Monday

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a batch of pleas, including one filed by the Editors Guild, challenging the validity of the colonial era sedition law. Illustration: Dominic......

SC grants more time to Centre to review sedition law, stay to continue

An interim order putting on hold the contentious sedition law and the consequential registration of FIRs will continue as the Supreme Court granted additional time to the Centre on Monday to take......