The petitioner said the five-judge Constitution bench of the SC's 1962 judgment in the Kedar Nath case upholding the validity of sedition provision was rendered in an era when the apex court was conservative in interpreting the ambit of fundamental rights. He said the fundamental rights are given a wide meaning in many subsequent landmark judgments.The petitioner said the five-judge Constitution bench of the SC's 1962 judgment in the Kedar Nath case upholding the validity of sedition provision was rendered in an era when the apex court was conservative in interpreting the ambit of fundamental rights. He said the fundamental rights are given a wide meaning in many subsequent landmark judgments.