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  • Over 100 artistes demand dismissal of all costs towards comic Munawar Faruqui, 4 others

    Over 100 artistes and writers, together with Arundhati Roy, Kunal Kamra, Pooja Bhatt and Kalki Koechlin, have demanded full dismissal of all costs towards humorist Munawar Faruqui and 4 others for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments throughout a present.
    Faruqui and 4 others have been arrested on January 1, following a grievance by a BJP MLA’s son that objectionable remarks about Hindu deities and Home Minister Amit Shah have been handed throughout a comedy present at a restaurant in Indore on New Year’s Day.
    He was launched from the Indore Central Jail late within the night time on February 6 after he was granted interim bail by the Supreme Court.

    In a joint assertion, over 100 artistes referred to as for the complete dismissal of all costs towards Faruqui, Nalin Yadav, Prakhar Vyas, Edwin Anthony, and Sadakat Khan.
    Noting that this case reinforces deep issues across the rights to liberty and freedom of speech in India, they stated the arrest and detention of Faruqui is indicative of the poor safety at the moment being afforded to the liberty of speech and expression within the nation. Every citizen in India has the constitutional proper to free speech and expression, albeit with cheap restrictions.
    “However, through instances like these, it is obvious that most arrests and forms of censorship carried out against artistes are founded on arbitrary grounds and are greatly damaging to artistic and creative freedom in the country,” they stated.
    This assertion is led by diasporic Indian group Progressive India Collective in partnership with PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection, Freemuse, and Reclaiming India.

  • Madhya Pradesh HC rejects comic Munawar Faruqui’s bail plea

    The Madhya Pradesh High Court Thursday rejected the bail software of comic Munawar Faruqui and Indore resident Nalin Yadav, who had been arrested on January 1 following complaints of allegedly hurting Hindu non secular sentiments throughout a comedy present in Indore on January 1.
    During the listening to, the Indore bench of the court docket mentioned that the proof collected until now reveals that in the course of the present, outraging non secular emotions of a category of residents of India with deliberate intendment had been made by the candidates. “The evidence/material collected so far, suggest that in an organized public show under the garb of standup comedy at a public place on commercial lines, prima facie; scurrilous, disparaging utterances, outraging religious feelings of a class of citizens of India with deliberate intendment, were made by the applicants.”
    Dismissing the bail purposes, the excessive court docket noticed: “There is also a specific assertion by the learned counsel for the complainant that the applicant alongwith other coaccused persons allegedly making outraging filthy jokes in social media deliberately against Hindu Gods, Lord Shriram and Goddess Seeta hurting religious sentiments of Hindus for the last 18 months despite, protest on various social media platforms. There is nothing on record to the contrary.”
    Faruqui and 4 others had been arrested final month after the son of a BJP MLA filed a grievance accusing Faruqui of passing indecent remarks about Hindu deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah throughout a present. A neighborhood court docket had then despatched them to judicial custody.