The Supreme Court said on Monday, “The speech of hate will not take us anywhere.”
Issuing a notice on a bench of his social media posts, Justices KV Vishwanathan and NK Singh on his petition seeking consolidation of an FIR registered against Khan against Khan against Khan can be directed against any other FIR or any other FIR in any other FIR. The bench said that Khan was under police custody in an FIR registered at Golf Link Police Station in Kolkata, and was also sent to judicial custody in another cedar registered in Bengal.
During the hearing, Justice Vishwanathan verbally commented “These abusive speeches do not find us anywhere”. Citing a Tamil, he said “… a wound injured by the fire may be cured, but a tongue will not be inflated”.
Justice Vishwanathan said, “I am thinking, someday we will join it … There is a test for the excitement speech for violence – is it a physical violence? It should not be. It can also be oral.”
Senior Advocate Dama Sashadari Naidu, who was present for Khan, said the FIR was registered under the retaliation of the complaint against Panoli.
The bench asked why he did not allegedly add aggressive tweets. Naidu said that he had removed those tweets and apologized before the FIR was registered.
Expressing his rejection of social media posts by Khan apparently, Naidu said that he is “cutting whatever he has sown” but “learned the lesson in a hard way”. He said that he was praying only to strengthen different FIRs so that the test was in one place.
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The bench said that the alleged social media posts were “all hate” and would not come under the purview of free speech.
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