SC Seeks activist Harsh Mander’s Transcript saying “no faith in Supreme Court.”
(Judicial Quest News Network)
The appeal of activist Harsh Mander in the case involving hate speech by BJP leaders will not be heard unless the matter of his alleged comments against judiciary is sorted out the Supreme Court said today.
The Apex court’s reaction came after a video of Mander’s speech that went viral in which he is seen saying that there is no trust left in the courts and that ultimate justice has to be done on streets.
On Wednesday during a hearing of a petition against hate speech by BJP leaders in Delhi, the Supreme asked activist Harsh Mander if he had Mander’s Speech in which he (Harsh Mander) have been seen be raising a lot of comments regarding the Supreme Court of India, this was observed by Supreme Court today where a petition was filed by Harsh Mander to lodge a FIR against the hate speeches of the three BJP leaders which triggered a communal riots in Delhi last week.
The Solicitor General Mr. Tushar Mehta appearing for Canter has submitted that the video in question is so contemptuous that it can’t be played in an open Court.
The Chief Justice asked the SG to Submit the entire script of the video to the Supreme Court so that court could go through exactly what the content of these video are?
Apart from the Harsh Mander’s petition there are several other petitions which are lined up before Supreme Court.
The Top Court declined to hear Mander’s petition after solicitor General Tushar Mehta produced transcript of his reported speech at Jamia.
Court says it wants to sort the issue concerning Mander’s speech and will hear hi petition.
The day after the students of Jamia Millia Islamia were brutally attacked by the Delhi Police and CRPF inside the campus, library, Mander had delivered a speech in which it is alleged that he had said “he has no faith in Supreme Court”
Dubbing the Activist’s speech “derogatory and instigating” the solicitor General also pointed out that in the past, former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had struck off Harsh Mander’s name as a petitioner in a case involving Assam detention centres.
At the time, the activist had asked for a change of bench. “Learn to trust your Judges,” Ranjan Gogoi had said, accusing Harsh Mander of “damaging the institution” and dismissing his plea.
Haesh Mander, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, historian Irfan Habib, economist Prabhat Patnaik and some organisations have also approached the Supreme Court, Challenging the constitutional validity of Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and sought direction to strike it down.
