Overview

• A division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad questioned the PIL’s maintainability and adjourned the matter for a later hearing.
• The court asked why a public interest plea was filed and noted that individuals alleging harm could approach the court themselves.
• Advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay’s petition seeks an FIR against Raj Thackeray and MNS workers and the party’s derecognition, citing a July 5 rally remark urging followers to “hit below their eardrums.”
• The filing alleges repeated assaults and harassment of Hindi-speaking residents in Mumbai, Thane, Raigad and Pune, described as intensifying around civic elections.
• Upadhyay earlier moved the Supreme Court, which directed him to the high court, and he has also written to the ECI, SEC and police after a state decision made Hindi a compulsory third language in primary schools.