Delhi HC refuses to entertain plea to ban Salman Khurshids book
New Delhi Nov 30 PTI The Delhi High Court Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre and Delhi government to ban the sale and publication of Congress leader Salman Khurshids book Sunrise Over Ayodhya Nationhood In Our TimesA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh pulled up the petitioner for not impleading the author of the book or publication house as a party to the plea saying he was a chance taking petitioner who has filed the plea for publicityYou want complete ban on the book but you have not made the author a party You may ask any heaven or sky We may dismiss it with costs You are not joining the author as a party Stop doing this activity in court Why are you feeling so shy and not joining the author as a party We will not give you any chance this is a deliberate move These are all chance taking petitioners It is for publicity the bench saidAfter sometime the petitioners counsel sought permission to withdraw the petition and file a fresh one with proper averments annexures and joining proper persons as partiesThe court allowed him to withdraw the petition and disposed it of as withdrawnHe has no courage to join Salman Kurshid as a party what type of PIL he will argue If you are so much worried about the name of the author or the senior advocate you should not have filed the PIL These are blackmailing or publicity petitions This is a waste of time PIL the bench saidPetitioner Rakesh in his plea through advocates A K Dubey and Pawan Kumar alleged that Khurshid has misused his fundamental right to freedom of expression in a very complex manner as it is not absolute and carries with it special duties and responsibilities towards public interestIt said there are 90 crore Hindus in the country and if anyone takes offence of such statements made in the book it could become a law and order problem in the societySalman Khurshid has written in the chapter That Sanatan Dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints was being pushed aside by a robust version of Hindutva by all standards a political version similar to the jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years it saidKhurshids new book on the Ayodhya dispute was released recentlyOn November 17 an additional civil judge here had refused to grant an ex-parte injunction on a lawsuit by Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta to stop the publication circulation and sale of the book for allegedly hurting sentiments of a large section of societyWhile declining interim relief the trial court had said the author and publisher had the right to write and publish the book PTI SKV SA
New Delhi Nov 30 PTI The Delhi High Court Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre and Delhi government to ban the sale and publication of Congress leader Salman Khurshids book Sunrise Over Ayodhya Nationhood In Our TimesA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh pulled up the petitioner for not impleading the author of the book or publication house as a party to the plea saying he was a chance taking petitioner who has filed the plea for publicityYou want complete ban on the book but you have not made the author a party You may ask any heaven or sky We may dismiss it with costs You are not joining the author as a party Stop doing this activity in court Why are you feeling so shy and not joining the author as a party We will not give you any chance this is a deliberate move These are all chance taking petitioners It is for publicity the bench saidAfter sometime the petitioners counsel sought permission to withdraw the petition and file a fresh one with proper averments annexures and joining proper persons as partiesThe court allowed him to withdraw the petition and disposed it of as withdrawnHe has no courage to join Salman Kurshid as a party what type of PIL he will argue If you are so much worried about the name of the author or the senior advocate you should not have filed the PIL These are blackmailing or publicity petitions This is a waste of time PIL the bench saidPetitioner Rakesh in his plea through advocates A K Dubey and Pawan Kumar alleged that Khurshid has misused his fundamental right to freedom of expression in a very complex manner as it is not absolute and carries with it special duties and responsibilities towards public interestIt said there are 90 crore Hindus in the country and if anyone takes offence of such statements made in the book it could become a law and order problem in the societySalman Khurshid has written in the chapter That Sanatan Dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints was being pushed aside by a robust version of Hindutva by all standards a political version similar to the jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years it saidKhurshids new book on the Ayodhya dispute was released recentlyOn November 17 an additional civil judge here had refused to grant an ex-parte injunction on a lawsuit by Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta to stop the publication circulation and sale of the book for allegedly hurting sentiments of a large section of societyWhile declining interim relief the trial court had said the author and publisher had the right to write and publish the book PTI SKV SA
