Supreme Court has sought U.P government’s response on dropping of the 2007 Gorakhpur riots case against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, which happened due to an alleged hate speech by him.
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Hate Speech is not defined in Indian constitution or by any Law.
In this background, Law Commission of India submitted its 267th report on Hate Speech in 2017, in which it drafted The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2017 by inserting new Sections in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to deal with hate speech.
New Sections recommended:
Insert Section 153C to penalise incitement to hatred.
Insert Section 505A to make ‘causing fear, alarm, or provocation of violence in certain cases’ a specific criminal offence.
Incidence of Hate speech: According to An Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report released in April 2018, 58 sitting MPs and MLAs had declared cases relating to ‘hate Speech’ in their poll affidavits.
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