Warning that delay in registering hate speech cases can be handled as contempt, the Supreme Court on Friday famous that it is a critical offence which is able to affecting the secular cloth of the nation.
The Apex courtroom prolonged scope of its 2022 order, and directed all States/ UTs to register cases over hate speeches even if no complaint is made.
The order handed by the Supreme Court in October 2022 for suo motu registration of FIR in hate speech cases was handed solely in opposition to UP, Delhi, and Uttarakhand governments.
“We further make it clear that such action be taken irrespective of the religion of the maker of the speech, so that the secular character of Bharat as envisaged by the Preamble is preserved,” the bench at the moment mentioned in its order.
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