Hindu Jagruti Sarvajanik Shri Ganesh Utsav Mandal had filed a petition challenging the notice issued to them under section 149 of CrPc by a local police station in Thane to whom they had handed over the script of the documentary slated to be screened during the Ganesh festival commencing tomorrow.
Titled "Antakwadacha Gulabi Chehra" (The luring face of terrorism), the documentary focusses on how girls are lured by youths of a minority community into marriage and thereafter abandoned after a child born to them or forced to take up jobs with extremist organisations.
The bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and R Y Ganoo, however, asked the organisers and police to sit together and jointly agree to substitute certain objectionable words, which may have the tendency to incite communal passions.
However, the judges did not object to a term 'dahshatwad' (terrorism) used in the script. They said, "There is nothing wrong in using this word. It is a generic term, so why it should be attributed to a specific community. The word terrorism is used, when there is something to do with destablising the country. It is used in Parliament also and therefore, there is no need to take objection to this word."
Accordingly, the script was changed and submitted to the court, which accepted it and allowed screening of the documentary.
Petitioner's counsel Saurabh Oka and Ram Apte made a statement that they would show the posters and pictures to the police before displaying them during the Ganpati festival in their sarvajanik mandal at Thane. (More)
