"Let a message go to media that a particular community cannot be targeted" 10 remarks made during the "UPSC Jihad" hearing in Supreme Court

Today's hearing in the plea filed against Sudarshan TV's show on "UPSC Jihad" before the Supreme Court once again saw interesting exchanges on the topics of press freedom, and how stereotyping a particular religious community is not in line with the idea of a cohesive society. .Issue is that you implicate a whole community as taking over the civil services, Supreme Court to Sudarshan TV in "UPSC Jihad" matter.Here are some of the interesting comments made during today's hearing before the Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and KM Joseph..1. "This is the real issue. Whenever you show them joining civil services, you show ISIS. You want to say that Muslims joining civil services is a part of a deep rooted conspiracy. Can the media be allowed to target whole sets of communities?"Justice DY Chandrachud.2. "Suresh Chavhanke is heavily invested in the channel. He says he will face the consequences of transgression of law. It is not a case of a person making an inciteful statement and then disappearing."Senior Advocate Shyam Divan.3. "We know how an injunction order will be looked at. I am afraid that there will be injunctions galore and we don't want that to be the law of land. We want to give your client a good faith option."Justice Chandrachud.4. "Let a message go to media that a particular community cannot be targeted. We have to look after a nation of the future which is cohesive and diverse. We recognize national security, but we need to have individual respect too."Justice Chandrachud.5. "I saw one of the episodes and it was hurtful to watch. You need to take down flames and the green t-shirt people walking with a 500 crore sticker on them."Justice Indu Malhotra.6. "There are so many half truths in the show. They are in terms of percentages. Union wants Muslims to come up and 50% Muslims made it to the UPSC and now you are running it down."Justice KM Joseph.UPSC Coaching Centre for Muslims received donations from terrorism linked trusts and organizations: Sudarshan TV tells Supreme Court.7. "All communities want a part of the slice of the power centre cake. You have put up a cocktail of various factors but at the bottom you are maligning an entire community."Justice Joseph.8. "There may be some case before court to see whether a code has been breached etc.. but I don't believe that any constitutional court has a first function to see whether a code is violated or not."Shyam Divan, in response to Justice Joseph's concerns.9. "…painting all candidates as carrying out an agenda shows the kind of hatred. This is the element of concern... here free speech becomes hatred. You can't brand every member of the community…you alienate the good members too by divisive agenda."Justice Chandrachud.10. "All these episodes are objectively hate speech and nothing else. We would like to persuade the court that it is indeed the Constitutional court's duty to order an injunction in this particular case."Shadan Farasat.The three-judge Bench will hear the case again on September 21, 2 PM. Meanwhile, the injunction order against Sudarshan TV's "UPSC Jihad" program will continue.