Morning Digest | Sedition law need not be revisited, Centre tells SC; Punjab and Haryana High Court gives Tajinder Bagga protection from arrest, and more

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Sedition law need not be revisited, government tells Supreme Court

A 1962 Constitution Bench judgment of the Supreme Court, which upheld the validity of the sedition law, “must be treated as a binding precedent” that has withstood the test of time, the Centre told the Supreme Court in a written note on Saturday. The six-decade-old verdict of a five-judge Bench had allowed Section 124A (sedition) to continue to be part of the Indian Penal Code though it limited its applicability to “activities involving incitement to violence or intention or tendency to create public disorder or cause disturbance of public peace”.

SC seeks Centre, State governments’ reply on making ‘physical literacy’ a fundamental right

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre and States to respond to a report recommending sports to be expressly made a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. The report submitted by the court’s amicus curiae, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, suggested that the “narrow” phrase ‘sport’ be replaced by ‘physical literacy’, which is a term “firmly established as a right in the leading sporting nations of the world”.

Punjab and Haryana High Court gives Tajinder Bagga protection from arrest

In an urgent hearing taken up by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday night, protection from arrest was granted to BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga in connection with a case of him allegedly making inflammatory remarks. In fast-paced developments during the day, Mr. Bagga approached the High Court, seeking a stay on his arrest, hours after a local court in Punjab had issued his non-bailable arrest warrant in the case.

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