ISSUE:
Whether Sections 124A and 505 of the Indian Penal Code are inconsistent with Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution?
RULE:
The words “Government established by law” in the disputed sections must be taken to mean the visible symbol of the state.
The feeling of disloyalty to the Government leads to public disorder by the use of actual violence.
Any written or spoken words which have implicit in them the idea of subverting the Government by violent means have been made penal by the sections.