New Delhi: Seventy six SC top advocates urged CJI NV Ramana, seeking the intervention of the SC to take Suo motu cognizance of the calls for ethnic cleansing at two recent religious events in Delhi and Haridwar.

Advocates in their letter wrote to CJI said that in absence of police action, urgent judicial intervention is required to prevent such events that seem to have become the order of the day. Advocates in their letter pointed out to the religious conclaves in Haridwar and Delhi, the letter signed by eminent lawyers including Dushyant Dave, Prashant Bhushan and Vrinda Grover, Salman Khurshid and former Patna High Court judge Anjana Prakash read: The aforementioned events and the speeches delivered during the same are not mere hate speeches but amount to an open call for murder of an entire community.

They said in the letter about speeches is pose grave threat not just to the unity and integrity of our country but also endanger the lives of millions of Muslim citizens. Following outrage and condemnation on social media over the open calls for genocide and use of weapons against Muslims, a police case was filed four days after the Haridwar event, in which only one person was named. Two more names were later added Dharm Das and one Sadhvi Annapurna.

It may be noted that no effective steps have been taken under the provisions of 153, 153A, 153B, 295A, 504, 506, 120B, 34 of IPC in respect of the earlier hate speeches. Thus, urgent judicial intervention is required to prevent such events that seem to have become the order of the day. It also pointed out that several petitions have been filed on it and are pending with the court.

We are writing to your Lordship hoping for prompt action in your capacity as the head of the judicial wing of the State and knowing your Lordship’s commitment to both the independence of Judiciary as also the constitutional values that are fundamental to the functioning of a multicultural nation such as ours, the advocates have appealed.