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Delhi violence: SC agrees to hear plea on FIRs for hate speeches, says we want peace

Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the plea for registration of FIR against those who gave hate speech and raised hate slogans. “We read newspapers blaming us. There is so much pressure on us…. But we cannot prevent such things”, Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde observed after hearing lawyer Colin Gonsalves.

“We don’t want people to die… We want peace. But the court has never been able to curb such violence,” Chief Justice Bobde said. The bench agreed to take up the petition on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the request at an early date but underlined that courts could not prevent such riots.

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“We will hear it. But you must understand we are not equipped to prevent such things from happening. We can only come into the scene after such riots have happened… Court can never prevent such things”, CJI Bobde said.

There have been instances where political leaders are giving hate speeches and there was no action taken against them. In this matter a please was filed in SC to take action against such leaders.

Few days’ back communal violence took place in Delhi in which more than 40 people lost their lives and many got injured. –Inputs from Hindustan Times

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