No area for spiritual hate crimes in secular nation: SC

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: Expressing displeasure over the failure of UP police to register FIR in a criminal offense of hate speech dedicated on a 62-year-old Muslim man in Ghaziabad, the Supreme Court on Monday stated that there isn’t any area for hate crime on the premise of faith in a secular nation. 

The bench of Justices Ok M Joseph and B V Nagarathna stated that laxity to behave towards these crimes fosters a harmful environment. “There is no space for hate crime on basis of religion in a secular country, it has to be rooted out and when the state has the will it has to be seen that it ends/ it is the primary duty of the state. When a person is wearing the cap… there can be other crimes along with hate crime… when such crimes are not acted against, then an atmosphere is fostered which is a dangerous issue and it has to be rooted out from our lives,” the bench stated. 

Lambasting the UP govt, the court docket stated, “Set an example that such officers cannot get away with dereliction of duty. Then only we will come at par with the developed nations.” Justice B V Nagarathna stated, “Mindset of the police also… someone who is coming to lodge an FIR cannot be treated in a disparaging manner… They should not be made the accused just because they have come to register the FIR.” 

While directing the state to file an affidavit mentioning the FIRs which have been filed towards the gang concerned for indicating the time when the accused had been apprehended and bailed out. The apex court docket stated, “Be it a minority or majority, there are certain rights that are inherent in human beings. You are born in a family and raised in one but we stand out as a nation. You have to take this seriously. Our 
country permits that and that is the diff between a theocratic state and a secular state. India stands out.”

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NEW DELHI: Expressing displeasure over the failure of UP police to register FIR in a criminal offense of hate speech dedicated on a 62-year-old Muslim man in Ghaziabad, the Supreme Court on Monday stated that there isn’t any area for hate crime on the premise of faith in a secular nation. 

The bench of Justices Ok M Joseph and B V Nagarathna stated that laxity to behave towards these crimes fosters a harmful environment. “There is no space for hate crime on basis of religion in a secular country, it has to be rooted out and when the state has the will it has to be seen that it ends/ it is the primary duty of the state. When a person is wearing the cap… there can be other crimes along with hate crime… when such crimes are not acted against, then an atmosphere is fostered which is a dangerous issue and it has to be rooted out from our lives,” the bench stated. 

Lambasting the UP govt, the court docket stated, “Set an example that such officers cannot get away with dereliction of duty. Then only we will come at par with the developed nations.” Justice B V Nagarathna stated, “Mindset of the police also… someone who is coming to lodge an FIR cannot be treated in a disparaging manner… They should not be made the accused just because they have come to register the FIR.” 

While directing the state to file an affidavit mentioning the FIRs which have been filed towards the gang concerned for indicating the time when the accused had been apprehended and bailed out. The apex court docket stated, “Be it a minority or majority, there are specific rights which might be inherent in human beings. You are born in a household and raised in a single however we stand out as a nation. You need to take this severely. Our 
nation permits that and that’s the diff between a theocratic state and a secular state. India stands out.”

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Amid protests in Sikkim over a comment in an SC judgement indicating that each one Nepalis settled in Sikkim are of “foreign origin”, the apex court docket has agreed to listen to a plea searching for modifications within the judgment by the use of elimination of such commentary. The Centre by way of the Ministry of Home Affairs has additionally filed a plea searching for a overview of the ruling.