New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket on Monday requested a petitioner to maneuver the Bombay Excessive Court docket together with his plea accusing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray of hate speech and inciting violence in opposition to the north Indian group.
A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice Okay Vinod Chandran requested Sunil Shukla, nationwide president of the Uttar Bhartiya Vikas Sena, the rationale of not transferring the excessive court docket together with his grievances.
“Is the Bombay Excessive Court docket on trip?” the CJI requested, prompting Shukla’s lawyer to withdraw the plea.
The bench, with out expressing any opinion on the deserves, allowed the petitioner to withdraw the plea and transfer the excessive court docket.
Shukla’s plea alleged the Maharashtra authorities and the police did not reply to his repeated requests to register felony circumstances in opposition to MNS cadres who’ve resorted to violence, threats to life and harassment in opposition to him, previously.
His advocacy for the rights of north Indians had made him a goal for threats, harassment, and bodily intimidation by the MNS and its affiliated teams, the plea added.
On March 30, the plea stated, throughout a Gudi Padwa rally, Raj Thackeray delivered an inflammatory speech which incited violence in opposition to north Indians for talking Hindi.
The petition stated the speech was broadcast, and led to violent assaults on Hindi-speaking workers at a number of places in Mumbai, together with Powai and D-Mart in Versova.
“Previous to such speech too, the petitioner obtained critical threats, together with a chilling message on Twitter that overtly incited his homicide, and over 100 nameless cellphone calls threatening his life. On October 6, 2024, a bunch of roughly 30 people affiliated with MNS tried to ransack the workplace premises of the petitioner’s political get together,” the petitioner stated.
Shukla claimed regardless of a number of written complaints to the Maharashtra chief minister, DGP and police commissioner in addition to the Election Fee of India, no FIR was registered.
