Plea against Swamy: NHRC reserves order

The NHRC,headed by Justice K G Balakrishnan,on Thursday gave a detailed hearing on the petition and reserved its decision.

Arguing for the MP,advocate Harris Beeran,said,“Intervention of the Commission has become necessary to show the world that the system of this nation and its constitutional and statutory institutions cannot tolerate such wicked events.” Beeran argued that remarks in the article primarily amounted to the offence under Section 153 A(1) of the penal code which deals with promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion.

The lawyer quoted from the petition that the article was “highly communal,lopsided,and parochial of Dr Subramanian Swamy to hold 16 crore Muslims of India to be held responsible for the acts of a microscopic,insignificant and negligible few”. He said: “The above is a clear call for Hindus to unite and fight against Muslims and the statements cited above violate every sacrosanct canon of justice and legal norms.”