Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Sat­narayan Ma­haraj have filed for an in­junc­tion seek­ing to block the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) from in­sti­tut­ing sedi­tion charges against him pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of his nov­el con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge against this coun­try’s colo­nial-age sedi­tion leg­is­la­tion.

Ma­haraj’s lawyers filed the in­junc­tion ap­pli­ca­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter DPP Roger Gas­pard, SC, failed to re­spond to sev­er­al re­quests over the is­sue, last week.