Mumbai: A Pune advocate moved the Bombay high court on Tuesday to challenge a recent Maharashtra government circular on sedition to police stations, on the grounds that the state has exceeded it jurisdiction by issuing it. The petitioner, 25-year-old Narendra, said the state had virtually amended the original Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with the offence by adding words.

The penal section makes it an offence, punishable with up to life imprisonment if anyone writes, says or attracts through visible representations or signs hatred, contempt, enmity, revolt against the government established by law in India.