The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday quashed an FIR registered by the Madhya Pradesh police over an alleged Hinduphobic and anti-national e-book within the library of Authorities New Regulation School, Indore.
Justice B R Gavai, presiding over a two-judge bench stated the FIR over the e-book – Collective Violence and Prison Justice System by Farhat Khan – is an “absurdity”. The bench, additionally comprising Justice Sandeep Mehta, stated, “perusal of the FIR would reveal that the FIR is nothing however an absurdity… The FIR taken on its face worth doesn’t disclose the elements of any of the offences”.
“It is a match case the place the court docket would train its jurisdiction below Article 142 and shut the proceedings to forestall abuse of regulation and miscarriage of justice”.
The police had lodged an FIR towards Farhat Khan, the e-book’s writer Amar Regulation Publications, school principal Inam Ur Rahman, and assistant prof Mirza Mojiz Baig primarily based on a grievance by an LLM pupil of the faculty. They have been booked below sections 153A (selling enmity on grounds of faith, race, hometown, residence) and 295A (Malicious acts, supposed to outrage non secular emotions of any class), amongst different IPC provisions.