Three years after Aseem Trivedi was charged with sedition, ruling on PIL in his favour by court leads state to issue circular to cops, detailing how to use IPC Section 124 A

Five months after the Bombay High Court (HC) issued guidelines to be followed while invoking Section 124 A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the state government on Wednesday issued a circular instructing all police unit commanders in Maharashtra to apply pre-conditions before registering sedition cases.