When Harsh Mandar knocked on the High Court’s door
Not only Ilyas, activist Harsh Mandar knocked on the door of Delhi High Court on February 26, 2020 during the riots and demanded action against Mishra and other BJP leaders. But here many twists came in the story.
Then Delhi High Court Justice S.K. Muralidhar and Justice Talwant Singh started the hearing. This petition was about three BJP leaders- Kapil Mishra, BJP MP Parvesh Verma and Union Minister Anurag Thakur, who made objectionable statements.
During this time, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta of the Central Government appeared in the court on behalf of Delhi Police. He then told the court, “It is not necessary to arrest BJP leaders for the alleged Hate speech. For this, the Chief Justice could be awaited tomorrow. ”
The court then asked that “Hundreds of people have seen the video, doesn’t this issue still seem necessary?”
Then Tusshar Mehta said that he has not seen the video. Justice Muralidhar also asked the police officer present in the court, on which the officer said that he has not seen the video of Kapil Mishra. What was it then that a clip of the speeches of Kapil Mishra, Parvesh Verma and Anurag Thakur was launched in the court.
Nevertheless, Solicitor General Mehta said that this is not the right time to register an FIR.
On this, Justice Muralidhar had asked, “What will be the right time, this city is burning?”
Responding to this, the Solicitor General said, “If the situation is favorable, an FIR will be registered.”
Then Justice Muralidhar had said in his order that the speech of Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Pravesh Verma and Abhay Verma comes under the definition of hate speech under sections 153A and 153B of the IPC. Section 153A is associated with promoting enmity between different groups and Section 153B is damaged by damaging national unity.
The government argued that this decision had already been taken on the recommendation of the collegium, it has nothing to do with the case.
But there was another twist left. The next day, this petition was heard in the court of Chief Justice DN Patel of Delhi High Court and then the same thing that the Solicitor General said before the court- is not the right time. Date on date again ..
Harsh Mandar told us that he also went to the Supreme Court in this matter, but on the contrary, action started to arise on him.
