10. Section 287B lists the penalties for seditious publication under sections286, 287 and
287A and provides that under these sections, no person shall be prosecuted unless upon
an information by the Director of Public Prosecutions and any such person shall on
conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 2 years.
461. Section 206 (Outrage against public and religious morality) and Section 282 (Stirring up
racial discrimination) of the Criminal Code Act were amended in 2018.Radio communication, and
technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical and electromagnetic capabilities,
and writing in different forms including writing by electronic means, communication in the form
of speed or other sound have now been captured.
462. The Information and Communication Technologies Act was amended in October 2018. The
Act makes it an offence to make use of telecommunication equipment to send, deliver or show a
message which is obscene, indecent, abusive, threatening, false or misleading, and which is likely
to cause or causes annoyance, humiliation, inconvenience, distress or anxiety to any person.
Further the use of an information and communication service, including telecommunication
service, to impersonate, or by any other means impersonates, another person which is likely to
cause or causes annoyance, humiliation, inconvenience, distress or anxiety to that person has also
been criminalised.
ARTICLE 29- INDIVIDUAL DUTIES
The individual shall also have the duty: To preserve the harmonious development of the family and to work for the cohesion and respect
of the family; to respect his parents at all times, to maintain them in case of need;
To serve his national community by placing his physical and intellectual abilities at its service;
Not to compromise the security of the State whose national or resident he is;
To preserve and strengthen social and national solidarity, particularly when the latter is
threatened;
To preserve and strengthen the national independence and the territorial integrity of his country
and to contribute to its defense in accordance with the law;
To work to the best of his abilities and competence, and to pay taxes imposed by law in the interest
of the society;
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