As Munawar Faruqui case shows, questioning BJP’s Hindutva project while Muslim can land you in jail
Several young Muslims have been locked up because they had the temerity to assert their right to equal citizenship. Stand-up comic Munawar Faruqui. | Munawar Faruqui via Facebook.
Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui is out on bail after being incarcerated for over a month on trumped-up charges.
Faruqui was arrested in Indore on a complaint by the vigilante son of a Bharatiya Janata Party politician who interrupted a New Year’s Eve gig at which he was performing, accusing him of hurting Hindu sentiments by joking about Hindu deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The police said that it did not matter that Faruqui had not actually done what he was accused of doing.