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- A Delhi court has ordered police to register a case against social media user Karishma Aziz over X posts and videos with allegedly derogatory references to Hindu religious and historical figures.
- A lawyer named Amita Sachdeva moved the Patiala House Courts, alleging that posts between February and April 2025 insulted figures including Bhagwan Shri Ram, Veer Savarkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
- Police told the court that an inquiry found no evidence of a deliberate attempt to incite communal disharmony, describing the posts as political and historical commentary, criticism and satire.
- Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta directed the Cyber Police Station (New Delhi) to register a case and file a compliance report within one week, citing Supreme Court rulings that police cannot refuse registration of a cognizable offence based on credibility assessments alone.
- The court noted that whether the posts amount to protected satire or criminal acts is a matter requiring investigation, a decision that could shape how online speech cases are handled.
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- The compliance report the Cyber Police Station must file within one week.
- The outcome of the police investigation into authorship and content of the account.
- Whether courts later treat the posts as protected satire or as offences under BNS Sections 196, 299 and 353.
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Mridul Gupta
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“At the present stage, this court is not required to meticulously evaluate the truthfulness of the allegations or record any conclusive finding regarding criminal liability”
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…ruling in Lalita Kumari versus Government of Uttar Pradesh, noting that the police cannot refuse to register a case merely by assessing the reliability or credibility of information disclosing a cognizable offence. “ At the present stage, this court is not required to meticulously evaluate the truthfulness of the allegations or record any conclusive finding regarding criminal liability ,” the court said. It added that the question was whether the complaint and supporting material disclosed circumstances warranting a police investigation. The court noted that the complaint concerned a series of posts…
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Named India · Karishma Aziz · Amita Sachdeva · Cyber Police Station · Mridul Gupta · Patiala House Courts · Supreme Court of India
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