Will re-examine provisions of sedition law: Centre tells SC

In a big U-turn on sedition law, the Centre told the Supreme Court that it will relook and re-examine the provisions of the colonial-era law.

The government also asked the court not to consider the petitions challenging the colonial law and to wait for the reconsideration exercise to be conducted by the Centre. The Supreme Court had earlier fixed May 10 as the date to hear petitioners who are challenging the constitutional validity of the sedition law.