The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a plea seeking registration of FIRs against BJP leaders Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra and others for their alleged hate speeches which led to violence in Delhi.
The plea has been filed by some riots victims as well as activist Harsh Mander. Earlier on Monday, a bench led by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde observed that the court “wishes for peace but has limitations to its power” to control such violence.
The observation was made after senior counsel Colin Gonsalves sought an urgent hearing of the plea, saying that five people are killed every day.
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Harsh Mander approached the top court after the Delhi high court deferred the hearing in the case to April 13. The high court had last week accepted the Centre’s logic that the time was not conducive to register hate speech cases and given the government four weeks to file a counter-affidavit in response to the plea.
At least 47 people have been killed and over 300 were injured during the communal violence that swept northeast Delhi.