Overview
- Disposing of the PIL, a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi asked Attorney General R. Venkataramani to examine the petition and, if appropriate, place it before the competent authority.
- The court resisted framing court-made rules, stressing that classifying crimes by a victim’s region or race risks a regressive, divisive approach and reiterating that “a crime is a crime” to be dealt with firmly.
- Filed by advocate Anoop Prakash Awasthi, the plea sought recognition of “racial slur” as a distinct hate‑crime category, creation of nodal agencies and district-level special police units, campus grievance systems and public-awareness measures.
- The petition argued that the 2023 criminal law codes lack provisions to recognise hate or racial crimes, mandate recording of bias at the FIR stage, or establish specialised investigation and victim-protection mechanisms.
- The case was prompted by the December 2025 killing of 24-year-old Tripura student Anjel Chakma in Dehradun; the bench noted that any request to expedite that probe should be moved before the concerned high court.