The Supreme Court today adjourned a case on a public interest litigation to ban websites on sardar jokes by a month. The petition said the jokes portrayed the sardar community as 'persons of low intellect, stupid and foolish'.


The petition filed by one Harvinder Chowdhury, a Sikh, said it was 'about time' that such jokes, which amount to insulting the community were prevented from being propagated through the Internet. Such a complaint has come up for the first time in Delhi - that too before the Supreme Court.


Hearing the case today, the Supreme Court said that the Sikh community is in fact known for its great sense of humour and enjoys being the brunt of jokes.


Chowdhury however, argued that these jokes affect the dignity of  the community, to which the SC said "Even Sikhs may object to your petition. Fortunately, we have a Sikh judge in the Supreme Court. Can we post this case before the Judge?"

The petitioner turned down the offer and argued that even PM Modi when he went to Bihar said "Biharis are more intelligent people " The judges smiled and said, "When Modi goes to Punjab he will say Punjabis are intelligent."


The petitioner argued that Sikhs are ridiculed abroad because of these jokes. "We are being ridiculed by these jokes. We have sacrificed a lot but when we go abroad we are ridiculed. I have suffered and I want these to be stopped." She said she wanted more time to prepare and argue the case. The court then adjourned the case for a month.

The Santa Banta jokes stay for now.