"May I ask, what colour is God’s skin, and is there is any God, if anyone knows?"
Justice Rajiv Narain Raina recorded the rhetorical query in an order passed last Wednesday to emphasise that people should not be discriminated on the basis of skin tone or race.
The judge was prompted to take up the issue last month after an African national involved in an NDPS case was referred to by a derogatory term in police records (Amarjit Singh v. State of Punjab).