KB-2023-003636 - [2025] EWHC 2043 (KB)

The claimant defines Hindutva as “an extremist far-right ethno-nationalist political ideology” which is “exclusionary and hostile to Muslims” and also Sikhs and Christians. It promotes conspiracy theories, including that Muslim men conspire to convert Hindu women to Islam by luring them into marriage. The claimant refers to those who adhere to this ideology as “the Hindutva”. The defendants did not dispute the existence of such an ideology, or that “the Hindutva” could be used to refer to those that subscribe to it. There is, however, a stark dispute between the parties as to the role, if any, of the Hindutva in the disturbances that took place in Leicester in the summer of 2022, and also whether, in his speech, the claimant was really referring to the Hindutva, as opposed to Hindu men irrespective of their political views.