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The colonial origins and constitutionality of ‘sedition’

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In Bharat, a provision relating to sedition was first included as Section 113 of the Draft Penal Code of 1837 prepared by the First Pre-Independence Law Commission under the Chairmanship of Thomas Babington Macaulay. The Commission recommended, among other things, codification of the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code.

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