<p>The Supreme Court on Friday declined to quash an FIR registered against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Umar Ansari in Uttar Pradesh, for alleged hate speech made during the 2022 state assembly poll campaign.</p>.<p>"You will have to face the trial," a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Pankaj Mithal told the petitioner.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/is-there-no-other-competent-person-asks-sc-as-it-extends-ed-chiefs-tenure-1241269.html">Is there no other competent person, asks SC as it extends ED chief's tenure</a></strong></p>.<p>The bench said the court will not quash the FIR in the case where the high court has refused to grant him any relief. </p>.<p>Ansari’s counsel said that the alleged remark was not made by him. </p>.<p>Declining to consider his plea, the top court said its order will not come in the way when courts consider the plea during the subsequent trial and other proceedings. </p>.<p>Umar Ansari, along with his MLA brother Abbas Ansari, is facing criminal prosecution in the hate speech case and he is charged with sharing the dais in a rally in Mau district where his brother allegedly threatened government officials.</p>.<p>In 2022, Abbas Ansari won the Mau Sadar seat in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls as a candidate of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP)-Samajwadi Party alliance.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Friday declined to quash an FIR registered against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Umar Ansari in Uttar Pradesh, for alleged hate speech made during the 2022 state assembly poll campaign.</p>.<p>"You will have to face the trial," a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Pankaj Mithal told the petitioner.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/is-there-no-other-competent-person-asks-sc-as-it-extends-ed-chiefs-tenure-1241269.html">Is there no other competent person, asks SC as it extends ED chief's tenure</a></strong></p>.<p>The bench said the court will not quash the FIR in the case where the high court has refused to grant him any relief. </p>.<p>Ansari’s counsel said that the alleged remark was not made by him. </p>.<p>Declining to consider his plea, the top court said its order will not come in the way when courts consider the plea during the subsequent trial and other proceedings. </p>.<p>Umar Ansari, along with his MLA brother Abbas Ansari, is facing criminal prosecution in the hate speech case and he is charged with sharing the dais in a rally in Mau district where his brother allegedly threatened government officials.</p>.<p>In 2022, Abbas Ansari won the Mau Sadar seat in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls as a candidate of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP)-Samajwadi Party alliance.</p>
