: Will file a better affidavit, Delhi Police to SC on hate speech at Delhi meet (Ld) #IndiaNEWS #Immigration New Delhi, April 22 | The Delhi Police on Friday conceded before the Supreme Court that it

Will file a better affidavit, Delhi Police to SC on hate speech at Delhi meet (Ld) #IndiaNEWS #Immigration
New Delhi, April 22 | The Delhi Police on Friday conceded before the Supreme Court that it needed to re-examine its affidavit saying that the speakers at a religious meet organised by Hindu Yuva Vahini on December 19, 2021, made no hate speeches against the Muslim community. The Delhi Police said it will file a better affidavit.
At the outset, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the petitioners, said the Delhi Police said an inquiry was conducted into the matter, and justified that persons had gathered to save ethics of their community.
The Delhi Police, in its affidavit, said The findings of the inquiry after visual and audio examination of the evidence further disclose that the speech did not contain any hate words against a particular community, and persons who gathered there with a motive to save the ethics of their community.
Sibal said: Your lordships may have to decide constitutionally, what ethics are?
A bench headed by Justice A. M. Khanwilkar noted that the affidavit was filed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police and queried Additional Solicitor General (ASG) K. M. Nataraj, Do you accept this positionwe want to understandHas any superior officer verified this?
The bench, also comprising Justice Abhay S. Oka, said: We want to know that the senior officer has understood the nuances of other aspects before filing this affidavit. Has he merely reproduced an inquiry report or applied his mind? Do you want to take a relook?
Justice Khanwilkar further queried, Is it your stand as well the reproduction of the inquiry report of the sub-inspector level officer?
Nataraj, representing the Delhi Police, said: We have to take a relook.
Justice Khanwilkar asked Nataraj, Do you want to have a relook at the whole matter?Is this the stand of Commissioner of Police, Delhi?
Nataraj submitted that a fresh affidavit will be filed, after taking instructions from the authorities concerned. The top court noted that the ASG sought more time to file a better affidavit in the matter.
The top court gave Delhi Police two weeks to file an affidavit and scheduled the matter for further hearing on May 9. The bench said that the police should file a better affidavit on or before May 4.
In the affidavit, the Delhi Police said some complaints were lodged alleging that hate speech was made at the event organised here by the Hindu Yuva Vahini on December 19 last year and all those complaints were consolidated and an inquiry was conducted.
The Delhi Police said the speech made by Sudarshan News TV Editor Suresh Chavhanke at the meet didnt amount to hate speech against any particular community.
The Delhi Police said that in the video clip of the incident, there was no utterance against any particular section or community.