Afzal Guru’s lawyer Nandita Haksar on Thursday said that the law of sedition is “loosely” defined in the Indian Constitution and its interpretation depends on who is in power.
Afzal Guru’s lawyer Nandita Haksar on Thursday said that the law of sedition is “loosely” defined in the Indian Constitution and its interpretation depends on who is in power.
“What is sedition and what is not in law is just the matter of who is the master. We need a much deeper understanding of nationalism, of sedition and their subtleties. Even lawyers only look at individual rights and media sees things in black and white,” she said while addressing the students at JNU. Ms Haksar was speaking on “Sedition and Nationalism” as a part of nearly a month-old speak-in series on “nationalism” by JNU professors in the backdrop of arrest of three JNU students in a sedition case over an event against hanging of Afzal Guru. Ms Haksar, the lawyer of both the Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and ex-DU lecturer S.A.R. Geelani, booked for sedition charges said, “she wanted to prove to the Kashmiris that India had space for dissent”.
