The Supreme Court on Thursday closed a contempt plea filed by activist Tushar Gandhi against Delhi Police in connection with hate speeches made at a religious gathering in 2021, after noting that a charge sheet in the case was filed in a court in the capital.<\/p>\n
Additional Solicitor General K.M. Nataraj, representing Delhi Police, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice J.B. Pardiwala that the charge sheet, after investigations were concluded, was filed on April 4, before a metropolitan magistrate in the capital.<\/p>\n
The bench said that it is not expedient in the interest of justice to continue with the present contempt petition against the backdrop that the charge sheet was filed.<\/p>\n
On February 20, Nataraj had informed the apex court that the probe in the matter was at an advanced stage and a report will be filed shortly.<\/p>\n
In January, Delhi Police told the Supreme Court that it was conducting a fair and an unbiased investigation into the alleged hate speech made at the Hindu Yuva Vahini gathering in December 2021.<\/p>\n
The police also said that it had examined spokesperson of Delhi BJP, editor-in-chief of Sudarshan News, members of Hindu Yuva Vahini, among others.<\/p>\n
It further said that the Forensic Science Laboratory was scheduled to compare in March Sudarshan News editor’s specimen voice sample with the video from YouTube.<\/p>\n
Tushar Gandhi had moved the apex court alleging inaction by the Uttarakhand Police and the Delhi Police in alleged hate speech cases.<\/p>\n
However, in November last year, the court had discharged the Uttarakhand government and its police chief from a list of parties to the contempt plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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