: No ban on publication, sale of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s book, says Delhi High Court #IndiaNEWS The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition to cease the publication, circulation

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No ban on publication, sale of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s book, says Delhi High Court #IndiaNEWS
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition to cease the publication, circulation and sale of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s book, Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood In Our Times, PTI reported. The book on the Ayodhya verdict has been at the centre of a controversy in November for its comparison of “a robust version of Hindutva� to terrorist groups ISIS and Boko Haram. Apart from facing backlash from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s leaders, two lawyers, Vineet Jindal and Raj Kishore, had filed a complaint against Khurshid earlier this month. The High Court on Tuesday was hearing the plea of the lawyers, whose counsel had said that the book could disrupt public peace, Live Law reported. “Ask people not to buy the book or read it,� the court replied. “Tell people it is badly authored, read something better. What can we do if people are so sensitive? Nobody asked them to read it.�On November 17, an additional civil judge in Delhi had also refused to stop publication, circulation and sale of Khurshid’s book based on a complaint by Hindu Sena president Vishnu Gupta. The judge had said that the author and publisher had the right to write and publish the book.The controversyAn excerpt from the senior Congress leader’s book, Sunrise Over Ayodhya, read: “Sanatan Dharma and classical Hinduism known to...Read more

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