The editor of an Urdu newspaper, Shirin Dalvi, was arrested by the Mumbra police in the adjoining Thane district for reprinting a controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed originally published by French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Dalvi, who was on Wednesday arrested and booked under Section 295 A of IPC for outraging religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion and religious beliefs, was later produced before a local court, which granted him bail.
Acting on a complaint lodged by one Nushrat Ali, the Mumbra arrested Dalvi, the editor of Avadhnama, for reprinting the controversial cartoon in her publication’s January 17 issue. Avadhnama had carried the image printed originally on the Charlie Hebdo cover issue which was published after the terrorist attack that killed the magazine’s editors and cartoonists.
In his complaint lodged with the Mumbra police station, Nushrat Ali had said that the controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed reprinted by the Avadhnama had hurt the religious sentiments here and create enmity among different communities.
The Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris was attacked on January 7 2015 by extremists who shot dead two policemen and 10 journalists, including four famous cartoonists of the magazine and its editor Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier.