The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its displeasure over the affidavit filed by Delhi Police in reference to the alleged hate speeches at an occasion held by Hindu Yuva Vahini within the nationwide capital in December final yr and directed it to file a “better affidavit”.
“Has any superior officer verified this, whether such a stand can be taken in an affidavit before this court? This affidavit is filed by Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police?” Justice A M Khanwilkar requested. “Has he merely reproduced the inquiry report or applied his mind? We hope he has understood the nuances,” he added.
Additional Solicitor Okay M Nataraj, showing for Delhi Police, advised the bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and Abhay S Oka: “we will have a relook and file a fresh affidavit”.
Delhi Police had advised the highest court docket that no particular phrases towards any group had been uttered at an occasion organised right here by the Hindu Yuva Vahini’ on December 19 final yr.
The prime court docket was listening to a petition filed by journalist Qurban Ali and former Patna High Court choose and senior advocate Anjana Prakash, who’ve additionally sought a route for an “independent, credible and impartial investigation” by an SIT into incidents of hate speeches towards the Muslim group on the `dharam sansad’ in Haridwar and Delhi final yr.
Replying to the discover issued by the court docket with regard to the occasion on the nationwide capital, the Delhi Police had mentioned: “No hate was expressed in the events at Delhi against group, community, ethnicity religion or faith”. It added that the “speech was about empowering once religion to prepare itself to face the evils which could endanger its existence, which is not even remotely connected to call for genocide of any particular religion”.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”