The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that insults to religion "made unwittingly or carelessly without any malicious or deliberate intent" would not be an offence under Section 295A of.
The petitioner in this case is Gurnam Singh, who had moved the high court in 2017 seeking quashing of an FIR – under Sections 295A/153A of the IPC – registered at Subhanpur police station (Kapurthala district) on March 31, 2012.
In a landmark judgment that could potentially reshape the way cases involving alleged religious sentiment violations are handled, the Punjab and Haryana
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