JAKARTA: A Muslim preacher has been arrested on charges including blasphemy and hate speech after his Islamic boarding school provoked protests for allowing women to preach and pray beside men, police said Wednesday. The Al-Zaytun boarding school in West Java, Muslim-majority Indonesia’s most populous province, has
Karnataka: Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Munirathna was on Thursday booked for hate speech after his remarks about Christians, Press Trust of India reported. Munirathna is the horticulture minister in the Basavaraj Bommai-led government. During an interview with a Kannada news channel on March 31, he had
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is being used as a tool by anti-India forces, a magazine associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) alleged in an article published on Wednesday. “After efforts to save terrorists in the name of human rights, creating hurdles in India’s growth
New Delhi: The Supreme Court lamented that despite the court passing many orders, nobody is taking action against hate speeches. A bench of Justices K.M. Joseph, Aniruddha Bose and Hrishikesh Roy made the observation while a lawyer requested an urgent hearing against the Hindu Jan Akrosh
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday observed that the Delhi Police has made “no palpable progress” in its investigation of hate speech made at a Hindutva event in the national capital in 2021, Live Law reported. At the event organised by the Hindu Yuva Vahini
New Delhi: Ex-Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, SY Qureshi, has expressed grave concern over the growing trend of hate speeches saying that the politics of hate accelerates with the start of election activities in India.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court called on the Union and state governments to take suo motu action against hate speeches without waiting for a complaint to be filed, irrespective of the religion of the person who makes such speeches. Taking a strong note of the “prevailing