It is such a travesty that people who recreated the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi were booked under ordinary sections of the Indian Penal Code and students who voiced their dissent in Jawaharlal Nehru University were booked under Section 124A (“Hindu Mahasabha leader, husband held”, Feb. 7). It shows how the law of the land works: the National Security Act is invoked for those who are accused of cow slaughter, sedition is invoked for those who dissent, but neither is invoked for those who denigrate the Father of the Nation.
Deepish Mani,
Chennai