The government notification came on Tuesday evening after a series of meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Chief Justice of India and opposition leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
According to statistics issued by the Ministry of Health on Friday, India registered 2,841 new Covid-19 cases and 9 fatalities in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll to 5,24,190.
The contentious sedition law will be put on pause until the government evaluates it, and those in prison can seek bail in court, the Supreme Court ruled today
