Most recent sedition cases in Haryana against Sikhs for Justice

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GURUGRAM: Haryana Police has invoked Section 124A (sedition), the law whose operation the Supreme Court put on hold on Wednesday, in 41 cases in recent years.
The individuals booked form a wide spectrum, from the founder of the pro-Khalistan group, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), and terrorist outfit JeM to the leader of a khap, a Congress MP and senior journalists.
Chargesheets have been filed in at least 19 cases and six have gone to trial.
Most sedition cases registered in the state in the last two years have been against SFJ and its founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, who has included Haryana, which he claims to be part of Punjab, in his separatist messages. The first of these cases was filed in July 2020 in Gurugram and Kurukshetra. Pannu was declared a terrorist on July 1, 2020 by the home ministry.
On August 31, 2020, the GRP railway station of Ambala Cantonment registered another case against SFJ after receiving a call threatening to blow up the railway station. On December 29, another case was lodged in Faridabad after the Railway Protection Force (RPF) received a call in Delhi that explosives were planted in Shridham Express. The train was stopped at Faridabad and checked. No explosives were found. The latest sedition case against SFJ and Pannu was filed on April 16 this year by Gurugram police after a video message from him was circulated on social media.
Between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020, two cases under Section 124A were filed against Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) – one on April 16, 2019 at the GRP station in Ambala Cantonment for a letter threatening to blow up railway stations and the other at GRP station in Rohtak on September 14 for, yet again, a letter threat.
On January 15, 2021, the sedition charge was invoked in a case filed at Bahadurgarh against khap leader Sunil Gulia for uploading a video on social media in which he threatened to launch a cannon attack if the government didn’t listen to the farmers protesting against the Centre’s new agriculture laws (which were eventually repealed last year).
The same month, on January 28, Gurugram police filed a sedition case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six senior journalists for their tweets on the violence during the Republic Day tractor rally in Delhi.
The FIR resulted from a complaint accusing them of broadcasting and tweeting misleading news about a protester who died in an accident after a tractor overturned. The Supreme Court later stayed police action in the FIR. In most of these cases, Section 124A was accompanied by other sections of the IPC, IT Act, etc. “The sedition charge is used rarely, and only invoked in cases when there is a threat to the state,” said a senior Haryana police officer.
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