The Delhi police submitted an affidavit to the apex court docket saying that no hate speech was delivered throughout the ‘Dharam Sansad’ occasion that came about in Delhi on December 19, 2022.
This comes after SC on Wednesday requested the Uttarakhand authorities to file a standing report concerning the progress within the investigation into the speeches delivered on the Dharam Sansad occasion held in Haridwar in December 2021.
In the affidavit, the police stated that an in-depth investigation was carried out within the Dharam Sansad case and they didn’t discover any occasion of hate speech within the speeches delivered on the occasion. Although the police discovered that specifics of faith had been mentioned, they didn’t discover any proof of hate speech.
The petitioners within the case had stated that police are “hand in glove with perpetrators of communal hate”. The police within the latest affidavit stated that these allegations are baseless.
The Supreme court docket is listening to a petition filed by journalist Qurban Ali and former Patna High Court decide and senior advocate Anjana Prakash within the matter. The petitions have requested for an unbiased SIT to analyze the matter.
The petitioners stated that in December 2021, at a procession organized by Hindu Yuva Vahini auditorium close to Govindpuri metro station, sentiments of individuals had been instigated by way of hate speeches. These speeches brought on panic within the space, as per the petitioners.
“We must practice tolerance to the views of others. Intolerance is as much dangerous to democracy as to the person himself. That the petitioner is trying to draw an incorrect and absurd inference by isolated passages disregarding the main theme and its message,” the police affidavit stated.
Ali, the petitioner stated, “We stand by what we have said in our petition. The matter is before the Supreme Court. We will file an appropriate response before the court,” to PTI
