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http://www.ibnlive.com/news/haryana-to-con...hi/21008-3.html
by  Anand Parkash Madan


Chandigarh: The Haryana government has  decided to confiscate every copy of a
book called Mahatma Gandhi a Curse for  Bharat, written by Anand Parkash
Madan and published in English and Hindi  with immediate effect.

Stating this here today, an official spokesman said  that the decision to
confiscate the book had been taken because after carefully  going through the
book it was found that it contained objectionable derogatory  remarks against
the Father of the Nation and tended to promote feelings of  enmity, hatred and
ill-will between different communities. 

The government after going through the book  concluded that it contained
"objectionable and derogatory" remarks against  Mahatma Gandhi and "tends to
promote feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will  between different communities,"
the spokesman said. 

The state government found the publication an  offence and under sub section
(1) of section 95 of the Criminal Procedure Code  1973, decided that every
copy of the book in Haryana be confiscated.

A case will also be registered against the writer  soon, the spokesman added.
In the book, the word Mahatma is defaced by a red  line cutting right through
the word to show Madan did not agree with the  appellation given to Gandhi by
Rabindranath Tagore, sources said.

Gandhi is portrayed as anti-Hindu in the book, the  sources said.
The officials said that the book was banned  following complaints from
certain people against  it.
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