The Supreme Court on May 19 gave petitioners liberty to approach its Vacation Bench during the summer holidays for urgent relief in case hate speeches continue to be made across the country while local authorities fail to act.
The court’s last regular working day is May 20 before it closes for summer vacations till July.
“Innocent people get hurt in such communal frenzy... We should be entitled to approach the Vacation Bench for appropriate remedy,” senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Qurban Ali, a journalist, and Anjana Prakash, a former High Court judge, urged the court.
