{"id":296520,"date":"2023-07-11T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=296520"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T10:33:40","slug":"manipur-violence-supreme-court-protects-lawyer-against-arrest-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/07\/11\/manipur-violence-supreme-court-protects-lawyer-against-arrest-sedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur Violence and Sedition | Lawyer booked for accompanying fact-finding team; Supreme Court protects against arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><b>Supreme Court:<\/b> The Bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud, CJI, PS Narasimha and Manoj Misra, JJ. granted interim protection against any coercive action by the State for a lawyer who was charged for serious offences including sedition and conspiracy to wage war against India. As per reports, the lawyer (&#8216;petitioner&#8217;) was booked for the offences including Sections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">121-A<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">124-A<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">153<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penal Code, 1860<\/a> (&#8216;IPC&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">It was contended that the petitioner had accompanied a fact-finding team of <i>National Investigation Forum for Women<\/i> (&#8216;NIFW&#8217;) as an independent lawyer and observer to enquire into the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/05\/10\/manipur-violence-explained-know-what-triggered-the-violence-in-manipur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violence triggered in Manipur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">As per reports, some of the incidents of violence in Manipur were stated to be <i>&#8216;State sponsored&#8217;<\/i> by the NIFW team, whose findings were also made public in the form of a press release. Following the same, First Information Report (&#8216;FIR&#8217;) was registered against the NIFW team and the lawyer for offences including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/07\/05\/settled-principles-unsettled-sedition-law-sent-into-abeyance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sedition<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/02\/12\/defamation-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defamation<\/a>, making assertions prejudicial to national-integration and allied offences by the Manipur Police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/05\/06\/high-court-judgment-violence-in-manipur-explained-legal-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explained: Manipur High Court&#8217;s Judgment that triggered violence in Manipur over inclusion of Meitei Community in Scheduled Tribe list<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">It was contended by the lawyer booked in the instant matter that the said press release did not contain any seditious content, nor was it signed by her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The matter has been listed for next hearing on 14-07-2023 after the Bench directed the Solicitor General to ensure that a copy of FIR was served to the petitioner, and to gather more information in the instant matter, restricting any coercive steps against her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><b>Also Read<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/07\/10\/manipur-internet-ban-hc-gives-directions-to-state-for-lifting-ban-on-providing-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>&#8216;Lift Manipur Internet ban; Provide FTTH on case-to-case basis&#8217;; Manipur HC directs State<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><b>Source:<\/b> Press<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Deeksha Dwivedi v. State of Manipur, dated 11-07-2023<\/span>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>As per reports, some of the incidents of violence in Manipur were stated to be &#8216;State sponsored&#8217; by the NIFW team, whose findings were also made public in the form of a press release.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67513,"featured_media":296526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[57422,3254,5363],"class_list":["post-296520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-manipur-violence","tag-sedition","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Manipur Violence: Supreme Court protects lawyer against arrest in sedition case | SCC Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court granted interim protection against arrest to the lawyer who was booked for sedition and other serious offences in Manipur violence.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/07\/11\/manipur-violence-supreme-court-protects-lawyer-against-arrest-sedition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manipur Violence and Sedition | Lawyer booked for accompanying fact-finding team; 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