WhatsApp Message Alleging Targeting of a Particular Religious Group May Amount to Offence of Promoting Enmity Under Section 353(2) BNS: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that sending a WhatsApp message to multiple individuals that subtly alleges the targeting of a person from a particular religious community in a false case would prima facie attract the offence of promoting enmity, hatred, or ill-will between religious communities under Section 353(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The observation came from a division bench comprising Justice JJ Munir and Justice Pramod Kumar…