Irresponsible to say PM should be hit with footwear: Karnataka High Court while quashing Bidar School sedition case

While the Court quashed the FIR filed over the staging of an anti-CAA play, it also emphasised that schools should refrain from teaching children to insult constitutional functionaries for policy decisions.
Irresponsible to say PM should be hit with footwear: Karnataka High Court while quashing Bidar School sedition case
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While citizens have a right to criticise the government for its policies, such criticism should be done without any intent to incite violence, observed the Karnataka High Court while quashing a sedition case filed against a school for staging a play critical of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). [Allauddin & Ors v State]

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