Tamil Nadu deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court docket on Monday refused to entertain writ petitions in search of legal motion in opposition to Tamil Nadu Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin for his speech in Sept 2023 calling for the eradication of ‘Sanatana Dharma‘.
A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Prasanna B Varale raised questions and requested the petitioners on how can such aid be sought by submitting writ petitions below Article 32 of the Structure, referring to PIL.
Sensing the temper of the court docket, senior Advocate Dama Seshadri Naidu, showing for the petitioners, then agreed to withdraw the petitions with liberty to pursue different treatments accessible below the regulation.
Three petitions had been filed in SC within the wake of the controversy created by Udhayanidhi’s touch upon ‘Sanatana Dharma’. The petitioners contended that the speech amounted to “hate speech” and offended their spiritual sentiments.
Many legal circumstances had been lodged throughout the nation, and Udhayanidhi has already filed a petition in SC, in search of consolidation of all legal complaints, and the case is pending within the apex court docket.
In his 2023 speech, Udhayanidhi had claimed that ‘Sanatana Dharma’ is in opposition to equality and social justice and equated it with “mosquitoes, dengue, malaria, fever and corona”, including that it ought to be stamped out like these illnesses.
