SC says no one should indulge in hate speech

New Delhi: Supreme Court A plea against hate speeches against the Brahmin community, which the petitioners termed “Brahminophobia”, was rejected on Friday.A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said hate speech should not be made against any community but declined to entertain the plea. “We do not want hate speech against any community. It depends on education, intellectual development, tolerance and patience. Once everyone follows the fraternity, naturally there will be no hate speech,” the bench said.Thereafter, the petitioner Mahalingam Balaji decided to withdraw his plea and the court allowed the request.During the hearing, Justice Nagaratna also questioned why a particular community should seek “protection from hate speech” only against itself and not against others. The bench said no one should indulge in hate speech and the petitioners could raise specific instances in appropriate forums but not before the judiciary.When Balaji said the judiciary was being targeted on social media, the judge said he was not concerned about false attacks on the judiciary.In his plea, Balaji sought directions from the central and state governments to recognize hate speech against the Brahmin community as a punishable form of caste discrimination and take immediate action. litigation Object to such situations. He also sought a detailed investigation into what he called “coordinated domestic or foreign campaigns” aimed at fomenting caste conflicts by promoting targeted hatred against Brahmins.“The government must set up a high-level truth and justice commission to investigate and acknowledge the 1948 Maharashtra Brahmin genocide and the 1990 Kashmir Pandit genocide and recommend measures to provide rehabilitation, economic and educational support to the survivors and their descendants,” Balaji said in the petition. He also sought directions to disqualify any civil servant or constitutional officer found to have made caste-based hate speech against Brahmins.