Delhi police says 'no hate speech' at Dharm Sansad last December
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New Delhi: Delhi police informed the Supreme Court that no hate speech had been taken place at the religious assembly, Dharm Sansad by Hind Yuva Vahini, last year.
The Supreme Court was hearing a plea -- filed by journalist Qurban Ali and former Patna High Court judge and Senior Advocate Anjana Prakash-- seeking investigation and action against the alleged hate speeches made during events held in Haridwar and Delhi, in 2020, IANS reported.
Police said no utterance against any particular community was made in the video clip of the speech on December 19. The speech was about empowering one's religion to prepare itself to face the evils that could endanger its existence, the police said, according to a report in IANS.
The speech, according to the police, was not even remotely connected to any call for genocide of any particular religion.
The police said that after an inquiry and evaluation of the video clip, they concluded that there was not any hate words against a particular community in it.
Police found no words that could mean or be interpreted as open calls for genocide of Muslims. There was no open call for murder of any entire community in the speech, according to IANS report.
Police questioned the petitioners for moving the top court without approaching it first. Also, police reported they have closed all complaints filed on the incident after investigations.
None of the words spoken at the events overtly and explicitly termed Indian Muslims as usurpers, predators of land, livelihoods and of Hindu women, police reportedly said.
Nothing was said or done to create paranoia among any religion, cast or creed, it said. Examining visual and audio of the evidence, police reportedly found no hate words against any community or persons.
The affidavit stressed on practicing tolerance to the views of others, adding that intolerance is dangerous tdemocracy and person.
Police accused the petitioner of drawing incorrect and absurd inferences from isolated passages, disregarding the
main theme and message.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought from Uttarakhand government a status report on four FIRs registered regarding hate speeches in December last in Haridwar.
