{"id":14662,"date":"2026-04-29T06:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=14662"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:42:02","slug":"130597042-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=14662","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court: &#8216;No vacuum in law to deal with the offence&#8217; \u2014 What Supreme Court said on hate speeches | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130597172,imgsize-831385,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/image-ians.jpg\" alt=\"'No vacuum in law to deal with the offence' \u2014 What Supreme Court said on hate speeches\" title=\"Image: IANS \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Supreme Court<\/a> stated on Wednesday that existing legal provisions are sufficient to address hate speech offences, declining to issue further directions on the matter as it falls within the legislature&#8217;s domain.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta delivered the judgment on a batch of petitions seeking directions and guidelines to address the issue of hate speech.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;Prescription of punishment lies squarely within legislative domain. 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