Shillong, February 23: A local court today issued an arrest warrant against a Delhi-based publisher allegedly responsible for printing school text-books carrying an objectionable picture of Jesus Christ.
“We have obtained an arrest warrant against publisher Indramohan Jha from chief judicial magistrate court here. A police team will leave for New Delhi to arrest and interrogate him,” DSP Vivek Syiem told PTI.
“A case under Section 295 (A) (deliberate and malicious act intended to hurt religious feelings) of the IPC has been registered against Skyline Publication. The offence is non-bailable,” he said.
Over 120 books have been seized by the police from a convent school and a distributor.
Authorities of St Joseph Girls’ Higher Secondary School here, where the cursive writing book was supplied among the students of Class I to IV, had filed an FIR against the publisher after the objectionable picture of Christ came to notice.
–PTI