Lawyers’ union demands action against Allahabad HC judge for anti-Muslim hate speech at VHP event
The group said that Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav’s remarks were a direct affront to the ethos and basic structure of the Constitution.
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The All India Lawyers Union on Monday wrote to the president and the chief justice of India seeking action against the Allahabad High Court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav for propagating anti-Muslim hate speech at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event a day prior, reported The Hindu.
The union said that Yadav’s remarks “amounted to hate speech against the Muslim minority”.
Delivering an address on the “Constitutional Necessity of Uniform Civil Code”, Yadav said on Sunday that India would be run as per the wishes of its Hindu majority.
He also uttered a slur used for Muslims who have been circumcised and described the community as “harmful to the country”.
“They are the kind of people who do not want the country to progress and we need to be cautious of them,” Yadav, a sitting High Court judge, said. He added that India would soon adopt a Uniform Civil Code – a common set of laws governing marriage, divorce, succession and adoption for all citizens.
Currently, such personal affairs of different religious and tribal groups – except in Uttarakhand and Goa – are based on community-specific laws largely derived from religious scripture.
The letter from the lawyers’ union said that Yadav’s speech was “against the Constitution, its ethos and a direct affront to its basic structure - secularism...
