The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and States to clarify actions taken against hate speeches even as petitioners argued that the distinction between dissent and hate speech is getting deliberately "muddied".
A Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar asked petitioners to prepare a chart of instances of hate speech and provide it to States in a week. The States would in turn inform the steps taken by them in these cases.
The Bench was hearing a petition filed by Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani, the president of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, highlighting incidents of hate speech and humiliation of Prophet Mohammed.
