As long as a convenient law exists, sedition will be misused: Sanjay Hegde

'Efforts to curtail misuse (of sedition law) have largely failed in the face of administrative bull-headedness'

SANJAY HEGDE began his career in 1989 as a lawyer with Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe. In the Supreme Clourt (SC), he began his career in the chambers of senior advocate G Ramaswamy. A leading voice for civil rights, Hegde believes that if a woman expresses a level of modesty and wants to practise hijab and cover her head, a government cannot say she cannot be educated at government expense. He speaks to Aditi Phadnis on the sedition law. Edited excerpts (with background of the previous orders in brackets):
 

The operation of the sedition law (Article 124A)