The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL that claims jokes on Sikhs and Sardars are an attack on the community’s dignity and right to equality and demands that they be banned. The Sikh lawyer who filed the petition said the court should order such jokes to be taken off the Internet, and pointed out that there are more than 5,000 websites that feature them, The Indian Express reported.

The petitioner wants the court to direct offenders to pay a compensation for making the jokes and claimed she has had to suffer humiliation for them, as they portray the Sardar community as having “low intellect”. The court, while insisting that many Sikhs took the jokes sportingly, agreed to hear her petition at a later time when she could come up with more material and case laws to make her plea.