To invoke Section 153A of the IPC, the statements must be "judged on the basis of what reasonable and strong-minded persons will think" and not on the basis of the "views of hypersensitive persons who smell danger in every hostile point of view".
The Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate had earlier transferred the case, involving Srijato Bandyapadhyay's poem that allegedly hurt Hindu sentiments, to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detective Department)
Rajasthan High Court granted interim protection from arrest to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in a case registered against him under Section 153A of the IPC for promoting enmity between religious groups.