Justice N M Jamdar of the Bombay High Court has upheld a petition challenging the charge of sedition against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and reiterated that the charge of sedition under Sec 124 A of the Indian Penal Code "˜aims at rendering penal only such activities as would be intended, or have a tendency, to create disorder or disturbance of public peace by resort to violence"™.

Besides, the judgement also accepted a set of guidelines, as pre-conditions to police for invoking sedition charges only if an act was an incitement to violence or disturbed pubic order. Also, a legal opinion in writing, along with reasons, must be submitted before any charge of sedition was sought to be applied in any case.