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INDORE: Among those caught up in the Munawar Faruqui row are two brothers from Indore an MBA student, who was starting out as a standup comic, and his minor sibling. Police hadn’t revealed that one of the accused was a juvenile and some officers even named him before mediapersons, which is against the law.
It’s only when TOI met the family that it was learnt a schoolboy had been arrested and spent a week in juvenile remand. The MBA student and three others arrested in the case are still in Indore jail. The family says the student went to Faruqui event to try out his dream of being a standup comic.
On Friday, comic Munawar Faruqui received interim bail from the Supreme Court, after spending more than a month in jail for allegedly insulting Hindu deities. His earlier requests for bail had been rejected by both the sessions court and the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The case attracted controversy because of the arbitrary nature of the charges: the police itself admitted that it had no evidence to show that the comedian had actually hurt religious sentiments.
People present at the club say that the police detained him before he had actually started performing.
However, even though Faruqui has got bail, four of the five other people who were arrested along with him in Madhya Pradesh on January 1 are still in jail. If Faruqui’s arrest was seen as arbitrary, theirs is even more so. The police seemined to pick up people at random in the club in Indore in which the comic was due to perform.