A sessions court in Indore rejected the bail plea of Sadaqat Khan , who was arrested with comedian Munawar Faruqui, for the second time on ...
A sessions court in Indore rejected the bail plea of Sadaqat Khan, who was arrested with comedian Munawar Faruqui, for the second time on Wednesday, Live Law reported. Additional Sessions Judge Yatindra Guru said the circumstances of the case do not change just because Faruqui has been granted interim bail by the Supreme Court.
Faruqui was arrested on January 1 from a cafe in Indore on a complaint by the vigilante son of a Bharatiya Janata Party politician who alleged that objectionable statements about Hindu deities were going to be made at the comedian’s show. People present at the club say that the police detained him before he had actually started performing. On January 4, the Indore Police had said that there was no visual evidence to show that Faruqui had insulted Hindu deities.
Along with Faruqui, four others – Nalin Yadav, Prakhar Vyas, Edwin Anthony and Priyam Vyas – were also arrested on similar charges. A day later, Faruqui’s friend Khan, a Mumbai-based engineer, was arrested for allegedly making abusive remarks about complainant Eklavya Singh Gaur, the chief of Hindutva group Hind Rakshak Sangathan. A video of him being assaulted by a bystander while in police custody was released on social media.
In his bail plea, Khan had cited the Supreme Court order granting bail to...
