Thursday's remarks by a bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath came during hearing of a bail plea of Jitendra Narain Tyagi, formerly Wasim Rizvi, ex-head of the UP Shia Wakf Board. Any hate speech case will not be seen in isolation but in totality of circumstances involving the accused while granting bail, the court said. Tyagi was arrested for his hate speech in the Haridwar last year. He approached the SC for relief after a trial court and the Uttarakhand HC denied him bail.
