04-11-2006, 12:00 AM
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Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter/ New Delhi
Delhi Police has registered a case against painter MF Husain for depicting "Bharat Mata" in an obscene manner in one of his paintings, which was to be auctioned to fund rehabilitation work in earthquake-hit Kashmir. The case was registered at the Connaught Place police station on the direction of a city court.
A case has also been registered against <b>socialite and Congress leader Nafisa Ali</b>. Nafisa, as she is the chairperson of the trust, Action India, which was engaged in auctioning Husain's paintings.
A case was registered after complainant, Dr Ram Pratap Singh, a resident of Indirapuram in Ghaziabad saw the objectionable pictures of "Bharat Mata" in a leading weekly magazine. <b>Dr Singh, who works in Apollo Hospital went to the Connaught Place police station to register a case but when the police refused to register his complaint, he moved an application in the court.</b>,
On April 4, a case under Section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 292 (printing of scurrilous matter), 294 (obscene acts and songs), 295 A, 298 (uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered on the direction of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala House, Vikas Dhull.
<b>A case has also been registered against an English daily for publishing a painting which depicts a scantily-clad Sita clinging to the tail of Lord Hanuman in a sexually explicit manner as also Draupadi's Vastra Haran being depicted in an obscene way.</b>
"The travesty of it was that such obscene paintings were part of an exhibition/auction to collect fund for reconstruction work in Kashmir which has been devastated by natural calamity," reads the first information report (FIR).
<b>Ms Nafisa Ali's trust, Action India, located at D-37 Defence Colony has been made liable for giving the advertisement captioned Art for Mission Kashmir showing a nude "Bharat Mata".</b> <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The case would come up for hearing before a committee under the aegis of Principal Secretary (Home) of Delhi Government. "Any arrests would be made on the basis of the recommendations given by the Committee," said a senior police officer.
Dr Singh has alleged that prior to this, the painter has been at the centre of other controversies for showing other goddesses in an objectionable manner and has again repeated the same, because the objection thereto was peaceful and no penal action was taken by the authorities concerned.
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Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter/ New Delhi
Delhi Police has registered a case against painter MF Husain for depicting "Bharat Mata" in an obscene manner in one of his paintings, which was to be auctioned to fund rehabilitation work in earthquake-hit Kashmir. The case was registered at the Connaught Place police station on the direction of a city court.
A case has also been registered against <b>socialite and Congress leader Nafisa Ali</b>. Nafisa, as she is the chairperson of the trust, Action India, which was engaged in auctioning Husain's paintings.
A case was registered after complainant, Dr Ram Pratap Singh, a resident of Indirapuram in Ghaziabad saw the objectionable pictures of "Bharat Mata" in a leading weekly magazine. <b>Dr Singh, who works in Apollo Hospital went to the Connaught Place police station to register a case but when the police refused to register his complaint, he moved an application in the court.</b>,
On April 4, a case under Section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 292 (printing of scurrilous matter), 294 (obscene acts and songs), 295 A, 298 (uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered on the direction of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala House, Vikas Dhull.
<b>A case has also been registered against an English daily for publishing a painting which depicts a scantily-clad Sita clinging to the tail of Lord Hanuman in a sexually explicit manner as also Draupadi's Vastra Haran being depicted in an obscene way.</b>
"The travesty of it was that such obscene paintings were part of an exhibition/auction to collect fund for reconstruction work in Kashmir which has been devastated by natural calamity," reads the first information report (FIR).
<b>Ms Nafisa Ali's trust, Action India, located at D-37 Defence Colony has been made liable for giving the advertisement captioned Art for Mission Kashmir showing a nude "Bharat Mata".</b> <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The case would come up for hearing before a committee under the aegis of Principal Secretary (Home) of Delhi Government. "Any arrests would be made on the basis of the recommendations given by the Committee," said a senior police officer.
Dr Singh has alleged that prior to this, the painter has been at the centre of other controversies for showing other goddesses in an objectionable manner and has again repeated the same, because the objection thereto was peaceful and no penal action was taken by the authorities concerned.
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