Context: Assessing the constitutionality of sedition law through the idea of inciting violence against government creates a false dichotomy, is misguided.
Issue with the jurisprudence of sedition laws in India: Opposing the idea of sedition is equalled with allowance of violence:
Incitement to violence as an act of sedition:
Conclusion: Attempts to read down the law or institute procedural mechanisms to forestall its arbitrary enforcement will not take away this power to persecute. Anything short of abolishing the offence of sedition will not help the restitution of the constitutional right to free speech.