Delhi high court shuts plea against ban on Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’

The Delhi High Court has closed the proceedings on a 1988 petition challenging the Rajiv Gandhi government’s decision to ban the import of Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel, ‘The Satanic Verses’, India Today reported on Thursday. In August 2022 Rushdie, lost his sight in his right eye after an attack by a... read full story

"In the light of the aforesaid circumstances, we have no other option except to presume that no such notification exists, and therefore, we cannot examine the validity thereof and dispose of the writ petition as infructuous,"