The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the sedition case registered in opposition to journalist Vinod Dua in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. PTI Reported. A case was filed in opposition to Dua by an area BJP chief from Himachal Pradesh for his YouTube present.
A bench of Justices UU Lalit and Vineet Saran had on October 6 final yr reserved the decision on the petition after listening to the arguments of Dua, the Himachal Pradesh authorities and the complainant within the matter.
On July 20 final yr, the apex courtroom had prolonged until additional orders the safety granted to Dua from any coercive motion within the case.
Dua was charged beneath sections 124A (sedition), 268 (public nuisance), 501 (printing matter thought of to be defamatory) and 505 (assertion conducive to public mischief) primarily based on a criticism by BJP’s Mahasu unit president Ajay Shyam. I went. The BJP chief claimed that Dua made unusual allegations in his 15-minute YouTube present on March 30.
The complainant had alleged that the journalist accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of utilizing “deaths and terror attacks” to get votes.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
