A bench of Justices V M Kanade and M S Sonak was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Pune-based social activist Hemant Patil who alleged that the two leaders of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) had made speeches which amounted to spreading communal disharmony and hurting national integrity and unity of the country.
The bench, on July 25, asked the petitioner to make separate representations to the police stations concerned and further directed the police to take action, if required, on merits and in accordance with law, within four weeks.
The PIL urged the court to order an inquiry into the speeches made by the duo in the recent past in which they had allegedly showed dishonour to motherland by such remarks.
Such remarks are anti-national and have the tendency to break the social fabric of the society and divide the people on the basis of religion and parochial issues, said Patil, who heads the NGO Bharat against Corruption.
The PIL was referring to speeches delivered by Owaisi at a public rally in Latur and Pathan's utterances in the state legislative assembly saying they would not say "Bharat Mata Ki Jai".