The Maharashtra government today informed the Bombay High Court that it has decided to drop sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi for allegedly insulting national symbols.A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice N M Jamdar was hearing a public interest litigation filed by a lawyer, Sanskar Marathe against the arrest of Trivedi for sedition, for drawing cartoons that allegedly insulted national emblem and Parliament. The Advocate General Darius Khambata told the court that out of the seven cartoons drawn by Trivedi, the state had found violations in three cartoons and the proceedings in this will continue against him.