“Hate Speech Unacceptable, Need To Stop It”: Supreme Court To Centre

New Delhi:

The Supreme Court today ordered the centre to work on forming a committee to look into hate speech cases across the country.

A petition by journalist Shaheen Abdullah requested the Supreme Court to give a direction to the centre to crack down on “blatant hate speeches”, which called for killing members of a community and their economic and social boycott in rallies held across the country, including in Haryana, where communal clashes last week killed six.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti said there has to be harmony and comity between communities.

“There has to be harmony and comity between the communities. All the communities are responsible. The problem of hate speech is not good and nobody can accept it,” the Supreme Court said.