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Hate Speeches : SC Seeks Reply From Delhi Police On Brinda Karat's FIR Plea Against BJP Leaders

The Supreme Court asked the Delhi Police for a response on Brinda Karat라이브 바카라 plea for an FIR against the BJP's Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for hate speeches they made during the anti-CAA protests.

CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat
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바카라 웹사이트The Supreme Court on Monday, April 17th asked the Delhi Police to respond to the plea of CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat challenging the Delhi High Court's order dismissing a petition against the trial court's refusal to order registration of an First Information Report(FIR) against Union Minister Anurag Thakur and his BJP colleague바카라 웹사이트MP Parvesh Verma for their alleged hate speeches during anti-CAA protests, and Delhi riots.바카라 웹사이트

A bench of Justices K.M Joseph and B.V Nagarathna issued the notice to the police and sought a response from the force within three weeks.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

During the hearing, the bench observed prima facie, that the바카라 웹사이트magistrate's stand that sanction was required for lodging FIRs against the two BJP leaders was not correct.바카라 웹사이트

On June 13 last year, the Delhi High Court had dismissed the petition filed by CPI(M) leaders Brinda Karat and K.M Tiwari against the two BJP leaders바카라 웹사이트for their alleged hate speeches.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

The바카라 웹사이트High Court had refused to interfere with the trial court's order, saying, by the law sanction is required to be obtained from the competent authority for registration of an바카라 웹사이트 FIR in the present circumstances.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트

The petitioners had claimed in their complaint before the trial court that Thakur and Verma had sought to "incite people as a result of which three incidents of firing took place at two different protest sites in Delhi".

The petitioners alleged, at a rally in Rithala in the national capital on January 27, 2020, Union Minister Thakur egged on the crowd to raise incendiary slogans, among them,바카라 웹사이트"Shoot The Traitors", after lashing out at anti-CAA protesters of Shaheen Bagh.

The petitioners claimed MP Parvesh Verma, too, made inflammatory speeches against the Shaheen Bagh protesters on January 28, 2020.

The trial court had on August 26, 2021 dismissed the petitioners' complaint on the ground that it was not sustainable as the requisite sanction from the central government, which was the바카라 웹사이트 competent authority, had not been obtained.바카라 웹사이트

In their plea, Karat and Tiwari had sought FIRs against the two BJP leaders under various sections, including 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc.), 153-B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the IPC.

The petitioners바카라 웹사이트had also sought action under other sections of the IPC, including 298 (uttering, words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).

The maximum punishment for the offences is a jail term of seven years. Further updates on the case are waited, as the Delhi Police will now file it's response within three weeks.바카라 웹사이트

(With Inputs from PTI)

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