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The Supreme Court stayed the arrest of a college principal in a case registered against him and others for allegedly keeping a controversial book in the college library in Indore (Representational photo: Reuters/File)
College Principal Enamur Rahman moves the apex court challenging an order passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the arrest of a college principal in a case registered against him and others for allegedly keeping a controversial book in the library of the college in Indore.
College principal Enamur Rahman moved the top court challenging an order passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The book titled “Group violence and the criminal justice system” was kept in the library of Government Naveen Law College.
A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said: “Pending further orders, the arrest of the petitioner in respect of the FIR shall be stayed.”
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A bench of Justice PS Narasimha also issued notice to the Madhya Pradesh government and others.
Earlier this month, Lucky Adiwal (28), an LLM student of the college and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) leader, filed a police complaint against the author of the controversial book, its publisher Amar Law Publications, Rahman and Professor Mirza Mozeez Baig Was. It has been claimed that the book being taught to law students has material against the Hindu community and the RSS.
state high education The department had formed a seven-member committee to investigate the matter. The petition filed in the apex court states that the petitioner has been wrongly implicated in the case.
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