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The State Cabinet connected Thursday approved the Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, 2025, to efficaciously curb, prevent, dissemination, work oregon promotion of hatred code and hatred crimes, which origin disharmony and hatred successful society.
The Bill would beryllium tabled successful the Winter league of the State legislature successful Belagavi, which would commence connected December 8.
Briefing presspersons connected the decisions taken astatine a Cabinet gathering chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H. K. Patil said the Bill aimed to curb and forestall the dissemination, work oregon promotion of hatred code and hatred crimes, which origin disharmony and hatred successful society, against the idiosyncratic oregon radical of persons and organisations and supply punishment for specified crimes.
The Bill besides envisages capable compensation to the victims. It said hatred code includes immoderate look which is made, published, oregon circulated successful words, either spoken oregon written, oregon by signs oregon by disposable representations oregon done physics connection successful nationalist view, with an volition to origin injury, disharmony, oregon feelings of enmity oregon hatred oregon ill-will against a idiosyncratic live oregon dead, a people oregon radical of persons, oregon a assemblage to conscionable immoderate prejudicial interest.
The prejudicial involvement includes religion, race, caste oregon community, sex, gender, intersexual orientation, spot of birth, residence, language, disablement oregon tribe.
The punishment for hatred transgression includes imprisonment from 1 to 7 years and a good of ₹50,000.
For consequent crimes oregon repetitive offences, the punishment would beryllium not little than 2 years, and it would beryllium extended up to 10 years with a good of ₹1 lakh.
The offences are cognisable, non-bailable, and triable by the Judicial Magistrate First Class.
The supra provisions would not extended to immoderate textbook, pamphlet, paper, writing, drawing, coating practice oregon fig successful the physics media oregon the work of which is proved to beryllium justified successful the involvement of the nationalist good.
The provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 would beryllium applied, the Bill said. The provisions of the Bill would besides beryllium applicable to oganisations oregon institutions.
The designated serviceman of the State authorities would beryllium empowered to nonstop immoderate work provider, intermediaries, idiosyncratic oregon entity to artifact oregon region the hatred transgression materials from its domain including physics media, the Bill said.
