New Delhi, June 23 -- The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to Centre and certain states on a plea filed by Wazahat Khan, the man whose complaint led to the arrest of influencer Sharmistha Panoli, seeking clubbing of FIRs lodged against him across multiple states for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through his social media posts.
A vacation bench of Justices KV Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh issued notices to the government of Assam, West Bengal, Delhi and Haryana and posted the matter for hearing on July 14.
"These hate speeches lead us nowhere," said Justice Viswanathan to Khan's counsel.
On request of Khan's counsel, the bench further ordered that as an interim measure till the next hearing date, no coercive action sha...
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