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![]() an appeal concerning arrests for speeches made at a meeting of the Bolshevik Party.an appeal concerning arrests for similar speeches made in the State of Uttar Pradesh at the All India Muslim Conference.169 of 1957 and combined with several other matters: Subsequently, the case was transferred to a Constitutional Bench as Criminal Appeal No. On appeal to the Supreme Court, the appellant argued that the Indian Penal Code provisions on sedition violated the right to freedom of expression under Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution. His appeal before the High Court of Judicature at Patna was struck down. ![]() ![]() The appellant in this case had been convicted for sedition and inciting public mischief because of a speech in which he had criticized Congress, the ruling national party, for its capitalist policies, and instead advocated for the Forward Communist Party. The Court reasoned that the penalization of sedition is a constitutionally valid restriction on the right to freedom of expression only when the words are intended to disturb public peace by violence. Kedar Nath Singh had been convicted for sedition and inciting public mischief because of a speech in which he criticized the government and advocated for the Forward Communist Party. The Supreme Court of India upheld the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Indian Penal Code that penalized sedition.
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