The Delhi high court has said that an import ban on author Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses ...
The Delhi High Court has disposed of a plea challenging the 1988 ban by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC ...
Rushdie's novel was banned in the Asian country in 1988 due to controversy over its depiction of Islam and portrayal of ...
The import ban on Salman Rushdie's controversial work, 'The Satanic Verses' has been lifted. File image The Delhi High Court ...
The Centre has failed to produce a 1988 notification vide which it had banned the import of Salman Rushdie's controversial ...
Says that since authorities failed to produce the relevant notification, it has to be presumed that it does not exist.
The 36-year-old ban on the import of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, 'The Satanic Verses', imposed by the Rajiv Gandhi government decision in 1988, was finally lifted today, paving the way for ...
Notification cannot be found, so Delhi high court practically lifts ban on the book that was imposed by the Rajiv Gandhi ...
The book was banned in 1988 by the Congress government claiming that it could give rise to law and order problems.
Excerpts from the book along with an interview of Rushdie ran in an Indian magazine in September 1988, which led to Indian ...
The Delhi High Court dismissed a petition challenging the 1988 ban on importing Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' because ...