{"id":5462,"date":"2022-01-04T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2022-01-05T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:22:12","slug":"data-only-20-conviction-rate-in-hate-speech-cases-decided-between-2016-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5462","title":{"rendered":"Data: Only 20% Conviction rate in \u2018Hate Speech\u2019 cases decided between 2016 &#038; 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In our first story on \u2018hate speech\u2019 cases, it was observed that the number of cases booked under Sections 153A &amp; 153AA has been increasing over the years. While the cases have increased, the disposal rates of both the police &amp; courts have come down leading to increased pendency. Even in cases whose trial is complete between 2016 &amp; 2020, the conviction rate was only around 20%. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/factly.in\/data-only-20-conviction-rate-in-hate-speech-cases-decided-between-2016-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our first story on \u2018hate speech\u2019 cases, it was observed that the number of cases booked under Sections 153A &amp; 153AA has been increasing over the years. While the cases have increased, the disposal rates of both the police &amp; courts have come down leading to increased pendency. Even in cases whose trial is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}