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The Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, which prescribes punishment and imprisonment for hatred crime, was tabled successful the Assembly connected Wednesday amid stern absorption by Opposition members. In all, 12 Bills were tabled successful the House connected Wednesday.
The Opposition members, peculiarly from the BJP, vociferously opposed the Bill and shouted “no” erstwhile Speaker U.T. Khader sought the consent of the House for tabling the Bill. The full Opposition expressed resentment and said it would not let the Bill to beryllium adopted by the House.
The Bill tabled by Home Minister G. Parameshwara seeks to curb and forestall dissemination, work oregon promotion of hatred code and crimes that origin disharmony and hatred successful nine against immoderate idiosyncratic oregon radical of persons oregon organisations.
What is simply a hatred crime
It defines hatred transgression arsenic connection of hatred speech, by making, publishing oregon circulating oregon immoderate enactment of promoting, propagating, inciting oregon abetting oregon attempting specified hatred code to origin disharmony oregon feelings oregon enmity oregon hatred oregon ill-will against immoderate idiosyncratic dormant oregon live oregon radical of persons oregon an organisation.
It besides seeks to punish whoever commits hatred transgression with imprisonment for a word which shall not beryllium little than 1 twelvemonth and which whitethorn widen to 7 years with a good of ₹50,000. For immoderate consequent oregon repetitive offices, the punishment shall not beryllium little than 2 years which whitethorn widen to 10 years with a good of ₹1,00,000.
The Bill seeks to supply capable compensation to victims.
Talking astir the Bill with reporters later, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said: “This is connected our docket arsenic we request to support bid and instrumentality and bid successful the State. Hate code is not acceptable successful immoderate civic society.”
In all, the Assembly saw the tabling of 12 Bills including the Karnataka Rent (Amendment) Bill that seeks to execute the rule of “minimum authorities maximum governance” by decriminalisation of insignificant offences and rationalisation of monetary penalties arsenic envisaged successful the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act 2023 (Central Act 18 of 2023).
The Karnataka Labour Welfare Fund (Amendment) Bill; the Drugs and Cosmetics (Karnataka Amendment) Bill; the Karnataka Cine and Cultural Activists (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill; and the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments (Amendment) Bill were besides tabled.
Other Bills tabled
The different Bills that were tabled successful the Assembly were: the Malnad Area Development Board (Amendment) Bill; the Bayaluseeme Development Board (Amendment) Bill; the Karnataka State Universities (Second Amendment) Bill; the Shree Chamundeshwari Kshetra Development Authority and Certain Other Laws (Amendment) Bill; the Chandraguthi Shree Renukamba Kshetra Development Authority Bill, and the Sri Malai Mahadeshwaraswamy Kshetra Development Authority (Amendment) Bill.
Highlights of Bill
It aims to curb and forestall dissemination, work oregon promotion of hatred code and crimes that origin disharmony and hatred.
It provides for one-year imprisonment which whitethorn widen to 7 years with a good of ₹ 50,000 for archetypal clip offence.
For consequent offices, the punishment shall not beryllium little than 2 years which whitethorn widen to 10 years with a good of ₹ 1,00,000
It provides for compensation to beryllium paid to victims
