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Allahabad High Court connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) said that the slogan “gustakh-e-nabi ki ek saja, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda (the lone punishment for insult to prophet and that is beheading)” is simply a situation to the authorization of instrumentality arsenic good arsenic sovereignty and integrity of India.
Refusing bail to a idiosyncratic accused of reciting this slogan, Bench of justness Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal, added that the slogan incites the radical for limb rebellion and is against the basal tenets of Islam.
The substance pertains to a bail exertion filed by Mohd. Rihan, 1 of the accused arrested successful transportation with the Bareilly unit that broke successful September 2025 aft the enactment implicit the posters of ‘I emotion Mohammed’.
U.P. Police person accused Maulana Taukir Raza, president of governmental outfit Ittehad-e-Millat Council, arsenic main accused for inciting the violence. As per the investigation, the accused had chanted slogans against the authorities and arsenic good arsenic slogan that calls for beheading of those insult the Prophet, earlier pelting stones connected constabulary and passers-by.
The tribunal said that chanting devotional slogans similar “nara-e-takbir”, “Allahu Akbar”, “Jo bole truthful nihaal, Sat Sri Akal”, “Jai Shree Ram” oregon “Har Har Mahadev”, is not an offence unless they are maliciously utilized to intimidate persons belonging to different religions.
It added that chanting specified slogans which provides punishment of beheading for disrespecting the Prophet amounts to challenging the sovereignty and integrity of India and besides the Indian ineligible system, which is based connected solemn law objective, which is rooted successful antiauthoritarian principles.
“....Any slogan by a assemblage that provides a decease condemnation contrary to the due punishment provided by the BNS oregon different transgression instrumentality is not lone against the law entity but besides a situation to the lawful authorization of the Indian ineligible system,” it added.
Observing that the slogan successful question does not person immoderate hint successful the Quran oregon immoderate different spiritual substance belonging to Muslims, tribunal noted that adjacent past the aforesaid is being utilized wide by respective Muslims without knowing its close meaning and effect.
“There are respective instances which shows adjacent Prophet Mohammad had shown his kindness contempt being disrespected by immoderate radical and helium ne'er desired oregon expressed to behead specified person,” the tribunal noted.
