New Delhi: The "Santa Banta" jokes today&nbsp;came under the lens of the Supreme Court which agreed to&nbsp;hear a PIL seeking direction to ban websites displaying cracks&nbsp;on Sardars and projecting them in poor light.
"This (Sikh) community is known for great sense of humour&nbsp;and they also enjoy such jokes. You must have gone through the&nbsp;jokes of Khushwant Singh...
"This is only an amusement. Why do you want it to be&nbsp;stopped?...Prepare your case well. We will hear you" a bench&nbsp;comprising Justices T S Thakur and V Gopala Gowda said.
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The apex court was hearing a public interest litigation&nbsp;(PIL) by a woman lawyer Harvinder Chowdhary who said that&nbsp;there are more than 5,000 websites which display jokes on&nbsp;sardars projecting the members of the community in poor light.&nbsp;
Chowdhury has sought direction to Telecom Ministry to&nbsp;filter websites which target the Sikh community as it is&nbsp;violative of sections 153A and 153B of the Indian Penal Code.&nbsp;
"All the jokes relating to Sikh community should be&nbsp;stopped. My children are humiliated and feel embarrassed and&nbsp;they don't want to suffix Singh and Kaur after their name,"&nbsp;Chowdhury said.
Referring to a recent comment by Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi during campaign for Bihar assembly polls that all Biharis&nbsp;are intelligent people, the lawyer said that it reflected as&nbsp;if other communities were not intelligent.
To this the bench said,"don't worry, when he will go to&nbsp;Punjab he will say Sikhs are intelligent."
"A writ of mandamus be issued to the respondent to ban&nbsp;websites 5,000 which spread jokes on Sardars/Sikhs projecting&nbsp;them as unintelligent, stupid, idiot, foolish, naive, inept&nbsp;not well versed with English...on the ground that it violates&nbsp;fundamental right to life and to live with dignity guaranteed&nbsp;under article 21 of the Constitution," the plea said.

The "Santa Banta" jokes today&nbsp;came under the lens of the Supreme Court which agreed to&nbsp;hear a PIL seeking direction to ban websites displaying cracks&nbsp;on Sardars and projecting them in poor light

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