Justice for an indian sedition - Monger: The trial of Mr Tilak. Mr Tilak, the editor of the Nationalist paper "Kesari" was tried at the Bombay High Court for publishing seditious articles. He was found guilty and was sentenced to six years transportation and a fine of a thousand pupees. Mr Tilak was tried before, in 1897, also on a charge of sedition. India - 15 August 1908