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DELHI—A total of 76 advocates practicing in the Supreme Court have appealed to Chief Justice of India N V Ramana to initiate suo moto action against individuals involved in two recent incidents in which participants made hate speeches and appealed for ethnic cleansing of Muslims.
One of the events took place on December 17 in Delhi. According to Scroll, it was organized by the Hindu Yuva Vahini in. At this function, Sudarshan News Editor-in-Chief Suresh Chavhanke administered an oath to the participants to “fight, die and if required, kill” to turn India into a Hindu Rashtra (nation).
“We take an oath and make a resolution that till our last breath, we will fight, die for and if need be, kill, to make this country a Hindu Rashtra and keep this country a Hindu Rashtra,” participants declared.
The other incident took place for three days, from December 17 to 19. Several participants appealed to Hindus to take up arms to physically eliminate Muslims.
In their representation, the lawyers have demanded to initiate action under Sections 120B, 121A, 124A, 153A, 153B, 295A, and 298 of the Indian Penal Code.
They said that these persons had not incendiary speeches for the first time. The letter said they had made several such speeches, but no effective steps were taken.
Here goes the full text of the letter.
To, Dated: 26.12.2021
The Hon’ble Mr.Justice N.V.Ramana
The Chief Justice of India
Supreme Court of India
Tilak Marg
New Delhi-110001.
Subject – Prayer for taking Suo Moto Cognizance of hate speeches calling for the genocide of Muslims in Haridwar and Delhi.
This is to bring to your kind notice that between the 17th & 19th of December 2021, at two separate events organized in Delhi (by the Hindu Yuva Vahini) and Haridwar (by Yati Narsinghanand), hate speeches consisting of open calls for genocide of Muslims to achieve ethnic cleansing, were made by the following:
1. Yati Narsinghanand Giri
2. Sagar Sindhu Maharaj
3. Dharamdas Maharaj
4. Premanand Maharaj
5. Sadhvi Annapoorna alias Pooja Shakun Pandey
6. Swami Anand Swaroop
7. Ashwani Upadhyay
8. Suresh Chavhanke
9. Swami Prabodhanand Giri
The events mentioned above and the speeches delivered during the same are not mere hate speeches but amount to an open call for the murder of an entire community. The said speeches thus, pose a grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of our country but also endanger the lives of millions of Muslim citizens.
In view of the seriousness and gravity of the aforementioned events, it is most humbly prayed that Your Lordship may take suo-moto cognizance of the same and direct that action is taken against the guilty persons under Sections 120B, 121A, 153A, 153B, 295A, and 298 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
It is also pointed out that the recent speeches are a part of a series of similar speeches that we have come across in the past. It may be noted that no effective steps have been taken under the provisions of 153, 153A, 153B, 295A, 504, 506, 120B, 34 of IPC in respect of the earlier hate speeches. Thus, urgent judicial intervention is required to prevent such events that seem to have become the order of the day. We have also been informed that in this regard, a few Petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution of India are also pending for consideration before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
We are writing to your Lordship hoping for prompt action in your capacity as the head of the judicial wing of the State and knowing your Lordship’s commitment to both the independence of the Judiciary as also the constitutional values that are fundamental to the functioning of a multicultural nation such as ours.
Regards
Signatories:
1. Anjana Prakash, Sr.Adv. & Former Judge, High Court of Patna
2. Dushyant Dave, Sr.Adv.
3. Salman Khurshid, Sr.Adv.
4. Prashant Bhushan, Adv.
5. Raju Ramachandran, Sr.Adv.
6. Huzefa Ahmadi, Sr.Adv.
7. C.U.Singh, Sr.Adv.
8. Meenakshi Arora, Sr.Adv.
9. Vrinda Grover, Adv.
10.Harin Raval, Sr.Adv.
11.Siddharth Dave, Sr.Adv.
12.Vibha Makhija, Sr.Adv.
13.Kavin Gulati, Sr.Adv.
14.P.V.Surendranath, Sr.Adv.
15.Basavprabhu Patil, Sr.Adv.
16.Ejaz Maqbool, Adv.
17.Amita Joseph, Adv.
18.Shomona Khanna, Adv.
19.Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, Adv.
20.Amit Anand Tiwari, Adv.
21.Shadaan Farasat, Adv.
22.Jagdeep S.Chhokar, Adv.
23.Mohd.Nizamuddin Pasha, Adv.
24.Anuj Prakaash, Adv.
25.Shoeb Alam, Adv.
26.Rajesh Tyagi, Adv.
27.Pyoli, Adv.
28.Kabir Dixit, Adv.
29.Aldanish Rein, Adv.
30.Cheryl D’Souza, Adv.
31.Andleeb Naqvi, Adv.
32.Prerna Chaturvedi, Adv.
33.Nanita Sharma, Adv.
34.Payal Gaikwad, Adv.
35.Ritesh Dhar Dubey, Adv.
36.Shahab Ahmad, Adv.
37.Surya Prakash, Adv.
38.Shashankraj Singh, Adv.
39.Priyanka Shukla, Adv.
40.Shalini Gera, Adv.
41.Aditya Shrivastava, Adv.
42.Afreen, Adv.
43.Subhash Chandran KR, Adv.
44.Rauf Rahim, Adv.
45.Kumaresh Trivedi, Adv.
46.Anas Tanwir, Adv.
47.Tahini Bhushan, Adv.
48.Vinayak Pant, Adv.
49.Sitwat Nabi, Adv.
50.Vinayak Pant, Adv.
51.Abhisht Hela, Adv.
52.Syed Jafar Alam, Adv.
53.Chandresan B.Rao, Adv.
54.Aditya Kumar, Adv.
55.Mani Gupta, Adv.
56.Abhishek N.Tripathi, Adv.
57.Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Adv.
58.Harsh Parashar, Adv.
59.Avani Bansal, Adv.
60.Mishika Singh, Adv.
61.Rukhsana Choudhury, Adv.
62.Lara Jeswani, Adv.
63.Kritika Agarwal, Adv.
64.Talha Salaria, Adv.
65.Surya Rajappan, Adv.
66.Naveen Nagarjuna, Adv.
67.Mohtasim Syed, Adv.
68.Bharathimohan, Adv.
69.Neha Rathi, Adv.
70.Anubha Rastogi, Adv.
71.Madhur Bharatiya, Adv.
72.Vertika Mani Tripathi, Adv.
73.Yogmaya M.G., Adv.
74.Chandrachur Bhattacharyya, Adv.
75.Nayantara Roy, Adv.
76.Jayant Tripathi, Adv.
Enclosed: 1. News report dated 23.12.2021 published by the Scroll.in titled “Hindutva leaders call for killing of Muslims at Haridwar and Delhi events”
2. Web-links of video clips of the speeches:
https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/viral-hate-speechvideos-from-haridwar-meet-spark-outrage-no-case-yet-613995 (Speeches by Suresh Chavhanke, Yati Narsinghanand, Sadhvi Annapoorna alias Pooja Shakun Pandey, Dharamdas Maharaj, Swami Premanand Maharaj, Swami Prabodhanand)
o https://twitter.com/kaushikrj6/status/1473580908984692736?s= 20 (Speech by Ashwini Upadhyay)
o https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1473689939669921800?s=2 0 (Speech by Yati Narsinghanand)
o https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1473580321429868544 (Speech by Sindhu Sagar Swami)
o https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1473580321429868544 (Speech by Sindhu Sagar Swami)
o https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1473581811548651523?ref_ src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E14 73581811548651523%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=htt ps%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2 Ftwitter.com2Fzoo_bear2Fstatus2F1473581811548651523widget %3 DTweet (Speech by Anand Swaroop Maharaj)
