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Supreme Court finds ‘no good reason’ to entertain pleas for ‘hate speech’ FIR against Assam CM

February 16, 2026

Updated - February 16, 2026 02:28 pm IST - NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court requested the Gauhati High Court Chief Justice to expeditiously list and hear the petitions on alleged hate speeches by Assam CM, if they are filed before the High Court. | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court on Monday (February 16, 2026) found “no good reason” to entertain a series of petitions seeking a criminal investigation against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for serially indulging in communal speeches and for a social media post, since deleted, depicting him discharging a firearm toward an animated image of two visibly Muslim men. Instead, a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant asked the petitioners, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India, to approach the State High Court despite the petitioners pointing out that Mr.

Supreme Court finds ‘no good reason’ to entertain pleas for ‘hate speech’ FIR against Assam CM

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Sarma is the “boss of Assam”.
The Supreme Court declined to entertain the petition, though it agreed with the petitioners that no political leader or constitutional officeholder should conduct themselves in a manner that would harm the secular ethos and morality enshrined in the Constitution, especially when elections were closing in.
The petitioner-parties have accused Mr.
Sarma of indulging in a “sustained pattern of hate speeches”.
They said the social media post, circulated in the public domain as a video, on February 7, 2026 from the “official handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam on X (formerly ), namely, ‘BJP Assam Pradesh’ (@BJP4Assam) and thereafter widely disseminated, has been the most blatant and disturbing manifestation of the pattern complained of”.

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Supreme Court finds ‘no good reason’ to entertain pleas for ‘hate speech’ FIR against Assam CM

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