Tag: Bidar school sedition case

By Abu Zaim New Delhi: A PIL filed on Friday before the Supreme Court seeking to quash the First Information Reports (FIRs) registered against Fareeda Begum, headmistress of Shaheen Primary School, l the mother of a student, Najibunnisa   and the management of Shaheen School in Bidar, Karnataka. The petition argued that the Karnataka police failed to distinguish between academic discourse and sedition in a free country. It also sought to constitute a committee to scrutinize complaints under 124A (Sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) before registration of an FIR. The...