Journalist Rana Ayyub Faces Court Action for ‘Insulting Hindu Deities’
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A COURT in Delhi has directed Delhi Police to register an FIR against journalist Rana Ayyub for allegedly making some derogatory posts in 2016-17 that included “insults to Hindu deities, spreading of anti-India sentiment and incitement of religious disharmony.” The court said the plea before it disclosed the commission of cognisable offences, and directed the… Continue reading Journalist Rana Ayyub faces court action for ‘insulting Hindu deities’

A COURT in Delhi has directed Delhi Police to register an FIR against journalist Rana Ayyub for allegedly making some derogatory posts in 2016-17 that included “insults to Hindu deities, spreading of anti-India sentiment and incitement of religious disharmony.”…

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    26 days ago

    i’d excpect this sort of shit in a theoracy; it’s wild to see it in a place like india, but i suspect that my country will also soon have these sorts of fucked up theocratic laws.

    • मुक्त@lemmy.mlM
      1·
      15 days ago

      These laws have been in India since British times. Muslims themselves forced the Brutish government to censor blasphemous books after Hindi book Rangeela Rasool was published and no rebuttal to it could be written. The autgor was assassinated and the book was banned.