Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan’s NGO Common Cause and anti-nuclear activist SP Uday Kumar have moved the Supreme Court asking it to lay down guidelines to stop increasing misuse of sedition law in the country.

The petition, filed on Wednesday, comes a day after a sedition case was registered against Amnesty International India after one of its employees allegedly shouted anti-India slogans during an event on Kashmir in Bengaluru.

Misuse of the draconian law came under criticism after Gujarat police slapped sedition charges against Patel community leader Hardik Patel and Delhi Police booked JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar under the same law after he allegedly raised slogans against the hanging of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru.