India's three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie's controversial 'The Satanic Verses' book has effectively been lifted after a court said the government was unable to produce the original notification that imposed the ban.

Delhi high court on Thursday shut the proceedings on a petition challenging the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to prohibit the import of Salman Rushdie's controversial book "The Satanic Verses" in 1988. The order effectively lifts the three-decade ban ...

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Says that since authorities failed to produce the relevant notification, it has to be presumed that it does not exist.

The book was banned in 1988 by the Congress government claiming that it could give rise to law and order problems.

Authorities failed to produce the original notification banning the book when the Delhi HC was hearing a petition challenging the ban

This case dates back to 1988 when the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) imposed a ban on the import of Rushdie’s controversial novel during the Rajiv Gandhi-led government.

The Delhi high court has said that an import ban on author Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses appeared to be “non-existent”.

The Delhi High Court has disposed of a writ petition challenging the ban on the import of Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses”.