SC Must Repeal Sedition Law, UAPA So Citizens Can 'Breathe More Freely': Justice Nariman https://thewire.in/law/sc-must-repeal-sedition-law-uapa-so-citizens-can-breathe-more-freely-justice-nariman
"If you are booking persons, including journalists, under these laws which come with large sentences and no anticipatory bail, people would not speak their mind."
“I exhort the Supreme Court to not keep sending the case back to the government. Governments will come and go, and it is not the government’s business to start amending or repealing laws. There is a live case before the Supreme Court and it is important that the court use its power to strike down section 124A and the offending provisions of the UAPA to ensure that the citizens can breathe more freely. Maybe then India will move from 142 out of 180 to much higher (in the RSF’s 2021 World Press Freedom Index),”