 India, for the last few years, is going through a very turbulent period in our social and political life. From toxic air quality to that toxic political quality, which is where we are today, this is what made it of interest to us also to look at what's happening in the arena of hate crimes, essentially, where people are being killed or violence being used against specifically communities and persons because of their identity. There's no doubt to an impartial observer today, compared to the video earlier and a half ago, that this is a dogma that is widespread across our country, that there is an unprecedented kind of dispersed hate violence happening in different parts of the country. We don't know the facts, we don't know exactly the numbers, what is happening, where is it happening. And the fact that we don't know the numbers, how many incidents, what motivated the incidents, what triggered, what were the communities involved, what did the police do afterward, this kind of data is something that actually the state should provide at least before us. I have handled violence in Punjab when terrorism was at peak and it questioned Mr. Gill's methods and I became a controversial person. I've been in the Northeast for a number of years and I always felt that this violence, the terrorist violence, insurgent violence, this violence has its own anatomy, this violence has its own constitution, it's not ordinary crime. And our inability to diagnose this violence, which arises essentially from the apathy of the government, insensitivity of the students, it is in complaints, not complaints repeatedly rejected, not addressing grievances, that is what leads to that. And we have been seeking military solution to problems which are essentially civil in nature and political in nature. The most important thing in religion based hate crime is not the identity of the victim, it's not important who the victim is. Therefore we are actually agnostic to the religious identity of the victim or the perpetrator. What is important for the apathy of religion based hate crime is the western motivation. India spent, brought out a report where they did a quick scan of how related violence since 2010. And the figures that they brought before us to just cover related violence reported in the English language press and we found that 97% of these incidents that happened after 2014, 56% of the people killed in cover related violence for Muslims and 8% for Dalit. And these were striking facts and I think people began to slowly recognize the reluctancy of them that they were confronted with something which is not ordinary law and order takedowns. Half of the hate crimes, 66% more than half were reported from states run by the BJP. 15% were reported in congress run states and I think more than a third of the cases involved attackers and they were affiliated to nightingale groups inspired by Hindutva. But I think that was particularly evident in all these attacks. Religion based hate crime is any crime that primer facing on the face of it reflects a motivation. Partly or wholly which is motivated by hatred, bias, prejudice or hostility towards the religious identity whether perceived or actual religious identity of victim. The last couple of years I've been feeling very much agitated and upset over this problem and it is a pity that the national time record bureau does not record it. It should not only be recorded, it must be recorded as a separate category of crime because murder from hate crime. Rape from hate crime, assault from hate crime are different from normal murder, assault and rape because hate crime not only means assault on body and property, it means an assault on freedoms. It's a threat to the very fact of rule of law. It's a challenge to our core constitutional values. That is the enormity of that which needs to be appreciated.