Comedian and rapper Munawar Faruqui, who recently emerged as the winner of Salman Khan’s controversial reality show Bigg Boss 17 and took home Rs 50 lakh prize money, got arrested in 2021 for making some insensitive comments about Lord Rama during a stand-up performance in Indore. A senior prosecution department official revealed that the state government has received a request …
While rapping up the Goa Police for lodging FIR under sec. 34 of the Indian Penal Code against members of "Dastaan LIVE", an art rock live performance band, for using the word "OM" and clubbing it with phrases like "Ullu Ka Pattha" thereby outraging religious feelings of Hindus, the Bombay High Court, Goa Bench on Friday observed that insults to …
The dangerous curtailment of comedian Munawar Faruqui's personal liberty must prick at our collective conscience. Section 295A of the IPC states that- "Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.—Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of,, insults or attempts to insult …
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