The Delhi High Court refused on March 18 to stay proceedings in a trial court against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi cabinet minister, Kapil Mishra, in a case relating to hate speech. The matter pertains to inflammatory social media posts by Mishra in the run-up to the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections.

A city court had refused to drop proceedings and quash the summons against Mishra for making objectionable statements. The judge had observed categorically that Mishra’s alleged remarks seemed to have been “a brazen attempt to promote enmity on the grounds of religion.”

The Delhi High Court dismissed Mishra’s argument that an adverse order would damage Mishra’s reputation, observing........

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