The right to freedom of speech and expression is subject to the rigours of hate speech or seditious content. With the apex court boldly moving to suspend the sedition law, free speech will be protected.
The hearing in bail petition of Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, accused of delivering hate speech during a Dharam Sansad in Haridwar last year, could not take place in the Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday, as the Judge hearing the matter was on leave.
The Supreme Court today agreed to urgently hear a PIL seeking its intervention in the matter pertaining to hate speeches delivered in December last year in Haridwar by one Yati Narsinghanand and the other in Delhi by Hindu Yuva Vahini.