Jokes shouldn't be targeted at racial groups: Sikhs to SC

February 16, 2016 20:29

No jokes should be targeted towards any racial group, Sikh community representatives today told the Supreme Court which agreed with its suggestion that instead of an "unenforceable judical order", there was a need for sensitising the society from the formative stages.

Asking various petitioners from the community including the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee to come up with suggestions in six weeks, a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said it would examine the framing of guidelines to stop circulation of racist or communal jokes in the cyber world.

Senior advocates from the community, A P S Ahluwalia and R S Suri, said there was a need to sensitise students not to circulate jokes that portray any community or sociological group as a "butt of jokes".

They said the community was against making and circulating of jokes on Sikhs, Biharis and calling people from Northeastern states by a particular term.

"There was a need for a change in orientation. May be time has come to look at a bigger and larger picture," Suri said before the bench, which also comprised Justices R Banumathi and U U Lalit.

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