By: Express Web Desk New Delhi | Updated: February 24, 2025 11:47 IST 2 min readKerala High Court denied anticipatory bail to BJP leader P C George in hate speech case. (File Photo)Days after Kerala High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea in connection with hate speech case, BJP leader P C George Monday surrendered before a court in Kerala’s Kottayam district.While speaking in a discussion on a TV channel on January 5 this year, George said: “All Muslims in India are terrorists and communalists. Not a single non-terrorist Muslim lives in India. Muslims are looters who plunder the country’s wealth. Lakhs of Hindus and Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims to create a Muslim state. All Indian Muslims should go to Pakistan. All Muslims are communal demons and scoundrels”.Rejecting his anticipatory bail plea on Friday, Justice P V Kunhikrishnan said if the court were to grant bail in such cases, it would send out “a wrong message to society”. The court said since the petitioner (George) had violated bail conditions of a previous case, “if granted bail in this case, people may think that, even if the bail conditions are violated, they will get anticipatory bail from the court of law. Such a message should not go to society”.In a 2022 case, the court had directed the seven-time former legislator not to make any statement that could amount to promoting religious enmity or outraging religious sentiments.© IE Online Media Services Pvt LtdTags:P C George