The Supreme Court on Tuesday that using terms such as “miyan-tiyan” and “Pakistani” was not an offence of hurting religious sentiments, though made in poor taste.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma therefore discharged a man in a criminal case filed by a Urdu translator and acting clerk RTI in the sub-divisional office, Chas, in Jharkhand.