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The Supreme Court connected Friday (September 26, 2025) refused to entertain a plea seeking a absorption to prohibition Salman Rushdie’s arguable caller “The Satanic Verses”.
The plea came up for proceeding earlier a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta. The counsel appearing for the petitioners referred to the Delhi High Court’s November past twelvemonth order.
The High Court had closed the proceedings connected a petition challenging the Rajiv Gandhi government’s determination to prohibition the import of “The Satanic Verses” successful 1988, saying since authorities person failed to nutrient the applicable notification, it has to beryllium presumed that it does not exist.
“You are efficaciously challenging the judgement of the Delhi High Court,” the Bench observed, portion dismissing the plea.
The petition was filed successful the apex tribunal done advocator Chand Qureshi. It alleged the publication was disposable owed to the bid passed by the High Court.
The Centre had banned the import of the Booker Prize-winning author’s “The Satanic Verses” for law-and-order reasons successful 1988, aft Muslims crossed the satellite viewed it arsenic blasphemous.
