SUPREME COURT OF INDIA : HATE SPEECH : ELECTIONS : DIRECTION TO GOVT. TO STRENGTHEN THE E.C. : With general elections round the corner, a bench comprising of B.S. Chauhan, M.Y. Eqbal and Dr. A.K. Sikri, JJ requested the Law Commission to examine the issue relating to “hate speech” and define the expression “hate speech” and make recommendations to the Parliament to strengthen the Election Commission to curb the menace of “hate speeches” irrespective of whenever made as the Law Commission has undertaken the study as to whether the Election Commission should be conferred the power to de-recognise a political party disqualifying it or its members, if a party or its members commit the said offence. The Court was of the opinion that effective regulation of “hate speeches” at all levels is required as the authors of such speeches can be booked under the existing penal law and all the law enforcing agencies must ensure that the existing law is not rendered a dead letter. [Pravasi Bhalai Sangathan v. UOI, Writ Petition (C) No. 157 of 2013, decided on March 12, 2014]
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