Reconsider complaint against Yogi Adityanath, says Supreme Court


New Delhi, Sep 12 (DC): The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Gorakhpur magistrate to consider afresh the ‘hate speech’ complaint against the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath as the complaint was rejected without assigning reasons. The magistrate had rejected the complaint filed by one Rasheed Khan on the ground that the sanction for prosecution of Mr Adityanath did not contain the signature of the sanctioning authority. The order however did not specify the reasons. On appeal, the Allahabad high court had remitted the matter back to the magistrate for consideration.

Disposing of an appeal filed by Rasheed Khan against this order, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud said the magistrate should apply his mind and pass a speaking order. The bench said the question that emerges for consideration is whether the magistrate, while entertaining a complaint and taking cognisance is obliged to record his satisfaction that sufficient ground exists for proceeding further.

Quoting an earlier decision of the apex court the bench said this ruling amply suggest that an opinion is to be formed only after due application of mind that there is sufficient basis for proceeding against the accused and such an opinion must be stated in the order itself. The magistrate’s order is liable to be set aside if no reason is given therein while coming to the conclusion that there is prima facie case against the accused.

The Bench therefore directed the magistrate, as the high court has remitted the matter to him, to pass appropriate orders keeping in view the law laid down in the aforesaid judgment. In his complaint Rasheed Khan said on January 27, 2007 responding to a call given by Mr Adityanath, a mob of violent members of the Hindu Yuva Vahini and other Hindu organisations in order to imbibe fear in the local minorities at Gorakhpur raised provocative slogans about damaging the properties and killing of Muslims.

  

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  • ca girishkk, m'lore/dxb

    Wed, Sep 12 2018

    The essence of apex courts observation is - "Safron don't make anybody & everybody saint's"

    jh
    jai hind..,

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  • Critic, Mangaluru

    Wed, Sep 12 2018

    Law is equal to all. Yogi is obviously a hate monger. His actions and speeches are on record. Most of the rightwing activists invilved in bomb blasts and other violent activities so far arr given clean chits during Modi regime.

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Wed, Sep 12 2018

    Quite serious charges were levelled against
    Adityanath which need to be relooked

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Sep 12 2018

    We need to take strict against Uneducated Goonda's ...

    DisAgree [1] Agree [26] Reply Report Abuse


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