Days after Kerala Excessive Court docket rejected his anticipatory bail plea in reference to hate speech case, BJP chief P C George Monday surrendered earlier than a courtroom in Kerala’s Kottayam district.
Whereas talking in a dialogue on a TV channel on January 5 this 12 months, George stated: “All Muslims in India are terrorists and communalists. Not a single non-terrorist Muslim lives in India. Muslims are looters who plunder the nation’s wealth. Lakhs of Hindus and Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims to create a Muslim state. All Indian Muslims ought to go to Pakistan. All Muslims are communal demons and scoundrels”.
Rejecting his anticipatory bail plea on Friday, Justice P V Kunhikrishnan stated if the courtroom had been to grant bail in such instances, it will ship out “a fallacious message to society”. The courtroom stated because the petitioner (George) had violated bail circumstances of a earlier case, “if granted bail on this case, folks might imagine that, even when the bail circumstances are violated, they may get anticipatory bail from the courtroom of legislation. Such a message shouldn’t go to society”.
In a 2022 case, the courtroom had directed the seven-time former legislator to not make any assertion that would quantity to selling spiritual enmity or outraging spiritual sentiments.
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