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CJP flags ‘communal polarisation campaign’ in Bengal polls, seeks action against BJP leaders over election speeches

CJP has filed two separate complaints before election authorities and police in West Bengal, alleging that speeches by Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar and BJP candidate Jagannath Chattopadhyay sought to polarise voters through religious appeals, anti-minority rhetoric, and fear-based narratives, thereby violating the Model Code of Conduct, electoral laws, and constitutional principles

Independence Day celebrations across India marred by hate-fuelled events

Hate speech targeting Muslims mars celebrations, violent sloganeering at right-wing rallies overshadow unity and heritage.

Supreme Court finds self-regulation of TV to be “ineffective”, will frame stringent laws

CJI Chandrachud: “Unless you make the rules stringent no TV channel has no compulsion to comply. For any violation if there is a lakh penalty then what stops them?"

Tushar Gandhi lodges police complaint against Sambhaji Bhide over insults to Mahatma Gandhi

I will not take any slander against my ancestors said the great grandson of Gandhi after lodging the complaint; Gandhi was accompanied by senior activists

IIM faculty members write an open letter to corporate India to ‘De-fund Hate Speech’

Present and retired stake holders of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bengaluru have appealed to corporate India to stop funding hate 

SC asks petitioners to not watch channels spreading hate, states that legal remedies available already

Justice Oka: “If you do not like them, then do not watch them. When some wrong thing is shown, it is also about perception. Is there not freedom of expression?”

Rising Tensions: Hindutva organisations continue with hate speeches across India

Hate speeches inciting violence against Muslims and Christians raise concerns. 

Bail not Jail for Bajrang Dal man, Bittu who posted a provocative video on day of Nuh clash

GURGAON: The Bajrang Dal member Raj Kumar alias Bittu...

Times Now Navbharat conducts media trial over Gyanvapi Mosque survey, CJP sends complaint

Complaint states that news segment was more of a one-sided show promoting the host’s version of the “Hindu cause” or a religious/sectarian debate rather than a news room debate

Plea against VHP rallies in Delhi-NCR on Aug 2 had stated “rallies likely to fan communal fires, incite people”

The plea was filed in the pending writ petition concerning hate speeches, had prayed for Court’s intervention to stop the rallies that “will inevitably lead to communal disharmony and violence of an unfathomable scale across the country.”

Suresh Chavhanke’s hate filled rhetoric leaves behind a trail of violence

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