Here's some good news for Salman Rushdie's fans. A Delhi court ruled last week that India's three-decade-old ban on the import of the book, ‘The Satanic Verses’, has to be presumed to be non-existent. Following this, the then Rajiv Gandhi government banned the import of the Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" for law-and-order reasons in 1988. In …
An appeal against the alleged customs restriction in 1988 on the import of Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on 5th November. The court highlighted, “In the light of the aforesaid circumstances, we have no other option except to presume that no such notification exists, and therefore, we cannot examine the validity …
New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has closed the proceedings on a petition challenging the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban the import of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, "The Satanic Verses", in 1988, saying since authorities have failed to produce the relevant notification, it has to be presumed that it does not exist. Delhi HC closes plea against ban on …
