According to an evaluation of official information, Assam has recorded the best variety of sedition instances within the nation within the final eight years.
Data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report confirmed that out of 475 sedition instances registered within the nation between 2014 and 2021, Assam had 69 instances – 14.52 per cent. This implies that one in six sedition instances registered within the nation within the final eight years have come from Assam.
The NCRB compiles and publishes crime information reported by states and union territories, and information is offered on sedition instances (registered beneath part 124A of the IPC) since 2014.
The newest version of NCRB’s Crime in India report confirmed that 76 sedition instances have been registered throughout the nation in 2021, a slight enhance from 73 registered in 2020. The variety of these instances was 93 in 2019, 70 in 2018, 51 in 2018. In 2017, 35 in 2016, 30 in 2015 and 47 in 2014.
The state-wise evaluation of sedition instances exhibits that after Assam, the best variety of such instances have been reported from Haryana (42 instances), adopted by Jharkhand (40), Karnataka (38), Andhra Pradesh (32) and Jammu and Kashmir. 29). 250 instances have been registered in these six states – greater than half of the full variety of sedition instances registered within the nation – over a interval of eight years.
Of the 69 sedition instances in Assam registered throughout that interval, three have been from 2021, 12 from 2020, 17 from 2019, 17 once more from 2018, 19 from 2017 and one from 2014. No sedition case was registered within the state in 2015 and 2016.
Nine different states and union territories registered double-digit sedition instances within the final eight years – Manipur (28), Uttar Pradesh (27), Bihar (25), Kerala (25), Nagaland (17), Delhi (13). ), Himachal Pradesh (12), Rajasthan (12) and West Bengal (12).
Three states – Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana – registered eight sedition instances every within the interval 2014-21, whereas Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh registered six and Goa 4.
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Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Lakshadweep registered just one sedition case every. Two sedition instances every have been registered in Sikkim and Tripura and three every in Arunachal Pradesh and Gujarat.
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Puducherry have been the states and union territories that didn’t register a single sedition case throughout that interval.
The statistics of sedition instances within the NCRB report are given beneath the heading ‘Crime towards the State’. While the instances registered beneath Section 124A of the IPC have been registered beneath the sub-head ‘Sedition’, the instances registered beneath Sections 121, 121A, 122 and 123 IPC have been given beneath one other sub-head ‘Others’. A complete of 149 offenses have been registered towards the state within the nation throughout 2021, out of which 76 have been sedition instances and 73 have been registered beneath the ‘Others’ subheading. The complete variety of crimes towards the state stood at 172 in 2020 and 163 in 2019.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
