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More than 60 students – aged between 9 and 11 – have been interrogated at least four times by police in the last one week over a “seditious” play in Karnataka.

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More than 60 students – aged between 9 and 11 – have been interrogated at least four times by police in the last one week. The interrogation – and the overall investigation – is over a play, a school play to be specific, which was critical of the citizenship law. As these young kids performed the play at their annual school function, it offended an ABVP activist and has since been tagged “seditious”.

Sedition seems to be India’s favourite charge against its people. But is India suddenly buzzing with people who are disloyal towards the nation, who are the enemies of the State? Or is the State misusing the sedition laws against its own people? Tune in to The Big Story for more!