Only Malicious and deliberate act comes under the purview of 295A IPC

Supreme court while dealing with Section 295A of the IPC has reiterated an interpretation to its applicability that only those acts that are committed with the deliberate and malicious intention would come within the scope of the offence, insults to religion offered unwittingly or carelessly or without any deliberate or malicious intention to outrage the religious feelings of that class do not come within the Section 295A IPC.
Court made an dictum while interpreting that Magistrates who conferred with the power of taking cognizance and issuing summons has to carefully scrutinize whether the allegations made in the complaint meet the basic ingredients of the offence.
Few days before also, Court repeated the same by allowing a plea by cricketer M S Dhoni to quash a private complaint filed against him in Anantpur court over his portrayal as God in a magazine.