The Delhi high court has said that an import ban on author Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses ...
India, while mostly Hindu, has the world’s third-largest Muslim population at around 200 million. Read more at ...
Authorities failed to produce the original notification banning the book when the Delhi HC was hearing a petition challenging ...
The Delhi High Court closed proceedings on a petition challenging the 1988 ban on Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses' ...
The import ban on Salman Rushdie's controversial work, 'The Satanic Verses' has been lifted. File image The Delhi High Court ...
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the 1988 import ban on Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" due to ...
In 1988, the import of the book ‘The Satanic Verses’ was banned for an law and order reasons after Muslims across the world ...
The book was banned in 1988 by the Congress government claiming that it could give rise to law and order problems.
The 36-year-old ban on the import of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, 'The Satanic Verses', imposed by the Rajiv Gandhi government decision in 1988, was finally lifted today, paving the way for ...
The Centre has failed to produce a 1988 notification vide which it had banned the import of Salman Rushdie's controversial ...
THE Delhi High Court has overturned the Indian government’s decision to ban the import of author Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses because the original notification cannot be found, Britain’s The ...
A fatwa (ruling) was issued against Rushdie and his publishers in February 1989 by the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah ...