{"id":43779,"date":"2016-07-08T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43779"},"modified":"2016-07-08T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:58:21","slug":"hate-speech-case-court-issues-notice-bjp-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hate-speech-case-court-issues-notice-bjp-mp","title":{"rendered":"Hate speech case: Court issues notice to BJP MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43780\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43780\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hate-speech-case-court-issues-notice-bjp-mp\/varun-gandhi_afp\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?fit=940%2C580&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,580\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Varun-Gandhi_AFP\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?fit=640%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-43780 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hate speech case: Court issues notice to BJP MP\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Varun-Gandhi_AFP.jpg?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hate speech case: Court issues notice to BJP MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A local court has issued notice to BJP MP Varun Gandhi asking him to appear in court in connection with a 2009 hate speech case.<\/p>\n<p>The notice was sent to Varun yesterday by District Judge Kautilya Kumar Gaur through the Lok Sabha Speaker as he did not appear in the court.<\/p>\n<p>The court fixed September 30 as the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n<p>After Varun was acquitted in a 2009 hate speech case in 2013, a social worker Asad Hayat had challenged the order in the district court after which summons were sent to him but he did not appear in court.<\/p>\n<p>Varun had allegedly made inflammatory comments against a particular community in his speeches at public meetings in Pilibhit during the 2009 Lok Sabha election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP leader was booked under various sections of the IPC and the People&#8217;s Representation Act for promoting enmity and acts prejudicial against communal harmony.<\/p>\n<p>The first FIR was lodged on March 17, 2009, at Barkhera Police Station for an inflammatory speech during a public meeting on March 8, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The second FIR was lodged at Sadar Kotwali on March 18, 2009, again for allegedly making a speech with communal overtones in Dalchand locality.<\/p>\n<p>Varun had strongly denied the charges and termed the case as an attempt to malign him.<\/p>\n<p>MA Kadri Shakir, lawyer of Hayat, said that as Varun did not appear in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court, he had appealed in the District Judge&#8217;s court.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local court has issued notice to BJP MP Varun Gandhi asking him to appear in court in connection with a 2009 hate speech case. 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