Case against Indore cartoonist over obscene posts aimed at maligning RSS's image

The Madhya Pradesh Police has filed a lawsuit against Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya for posting objectionable worldly online connected Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Lord Shiva.

The complaint, lodged by RSS subordinate and lawyer Vinay Joshi, accused Malviya of deliberately sharing "offensive," "indecent" and "obscene" contented that allegedly targets Hindu spiritual sentiments.

Malviya, who identifies arsenic an artist, cartoonist and wedding decorator connected societal media, often uses satire to remark connected governmental and societal issues. His Facebook relationship is filled with cartoons, videos and photos that often people the establishment.

For example, successful 1 of his caller Facebook posts, a cartoon, purportedly featuring an RSS idiosyncratic and PM Modi, shows the idiosyncratic asking the Prime Minister, "You've started the Retreat Ceremony, present delight merchandise the water. Pakistanis person not washed themselves, it's stinking."

In different post, Malviya commented connected US President Donald Trump and PM Narendra Modi's friendship. In the cartoon, the caricature of Trump is saying to PM Modi, "I curse connected American soil, I won't fto your mangoes merchantability and not adjacent fto you sensation the Apple."

Lasudiya constabulary presumption in-charge Tareesh Soni confirmed that Malviya has been booked nether aggregate sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita - including 196 (acts detrimental to communal harmony), 299 (deliberate enactment intended to wounded spiritual sentiments), and 352 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) - on with conception 67A of the IT Act, which pertains to the transmission of sexually explicit worldly online.

While an probe is underway, Malviya has not yet been taken into custody.

Reacting to the FIR, Malviya took to Facebook and wrote that the quality is not a joke. Referring to a caller station helium had shared successful humour, helium said, "Yesterday, erstwhile the Congress filed an FIR against BJP IT Cell caput Amit Malviya, a person mistakenly replaced his sanction with mine. I recovered it amusing and shared the station jokingly. But today, it's nary longer a gag - it's real."

He acknowledged that an FIR had been registered against him for allegedly posting objectionable cartoons and remarks astir RSS volunteers, Prime Minister Modi and Lord Shiva.

Despite the controversy, his Facebook illustration inactive carries a disclaimer that each characters depicted successful his cartoons are fictional and that immoderate resemblance to existent radical is coincidental and near to the viewer's imagination. Malviya presently has astir 40,000 followers connected the platform.