Sanatan Dharma remarks: SC tags plea seeking FIR against Udhayanidhi Stalin with pending petition

The Supreme Court on Wednesday tagged a plea which has sought registration of an FIR against Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin over his eradicate Sanatan Dharma remark with another similar pending petitionA bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi was hearing a plea seeking direction for registration of an First Information Report FIR against Udhayanidhi Stalin and DMK leader A Raja for their comments on Sanatan DharmaOn September 22 the top court had agreed to hear a separate plea filed by Chennaibased lawyer B Jagannath seeking registration of an FIR against Udhayanidhi Stalin and others over his eradicate Sanatan Dharma remark which the petitioner likened to hate speechUdhayanidhi Stalin who is also an actor is the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling DMK chief M K StalinThe plea filed by Delhibased advocate Vineet Jindal came up for hearing before the bench on WednesdayWe will not issue notice but we will tag it the bench told the counsel appearing for the petitionerThe lawyer appearing for Tamil Nadu argued that the plea was a public interest litigation in the nature of publicity interest litigationHe said the top court had last week issued notice on the other petition having similar prayer and there was no need to have another such pleaInstead of taking notice we will take it up on that day the bench said adding The question of entertaining itself we will take it up that dayTerming it an unfortunate scenario the states counsel said in this matter several writ petitions have been filed in different high courts and it becomes difficult for the stateYou have the appropriate remedy under the Constitution the bench observed adding We are only tagging itIn his petition Jindal has said that he is aggrieved by the outrageous defaming and demeaning remarks allegedly made by the two DMK leaders against Sanatan DharmaThe plea has claimed such remarks against the Sanatan Dharma amounted to hate speechThe petitioner being a Hindu and Sanatan Dharma follower his religious sentiments are hurt by statements made by the respondent no 7 and 8 Udhayanidhi Stalin and Raja calling for eradicating Sanatan Dharma and further comparing Sanatan with mosquitoes dengue corona and malaria the plea saidIt has also sought a direction to the Centre and state of Tamil Nadu to take appropriate action against the Delhi and Chennai Police for allegedly not initiating any inquiry suomotu against the two in view of the April 28 order of the apex courtThe top court had on April 28 this year directed all states and union territories to register cases against those making hate speeches even if no complaint was madeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever