Hate speech: Kerala HC grants bail to PC George

George was arrested on Wednesday from a police station in Kochi, where he had turned up as part of the investigation into another hate speech he allegedly delivered at a temple festival in violation of the bail conditions in the original case.

By: Express News Service

Thiruvananthapuram | Updated: May 27, 2022 05:42 PM IST

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While Vijayan has done a lot of good work for the state in the past, he was now "incompetent, weak and forgetful" and it was sad to see him like this, George said. (File)

The Kerala High Court on Friday granted bail to senior politician P C George, who has been in judicial custody since Thursday after a court here cancelled the bail granted to him in a case pertaining to his alleged hate speech at a Hindu mahasammelan here last month.

On Wednesday, George was taken into custody from a police station in Kochi, where he had turned up as part of the probe into another hate speech delivered earlier this month during a temple festival in Kochi.

The magistrate court in Thiruvananthapuram had cancelled George’s bail after the prosecution informed the court that he violated the bail conditions, citing another alleged hate speech that George had delivered in Kochi.

After the court cancelled his bail, George was arrested and taken to Thiruvananthapuram, where he was produced before the court.

On April 29, addressing the Ananthapuri Hindu Mahasammelan in Thiruvananthapuram, George had alleged that restaurants run by Muslims should be avoided because they used “some kind of drops” that caused impotence. He also talked of “love jihad” and an “agenda to establish a Muslim country” by “sterilising men and women [of other faith]”.

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