‘Objectionable’ cartoons on PM Modi, RSS: Supreme Court grants protection to cartoonist

On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, the Supreme Court was protected from compelling action in a cartoon that was accused of sharing the objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS workers on social media.

However, a bench of Sudhanshu Dhulia and Aravind Kumar warned the state to act against the laws against him if he continued to share aggressive tasks on social media.

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“We’ll have to do something about it, dedi the bench said, as he passed the orders in abusive social media publications.

Miffed on the alleged abusive online publications, “he added,” he added, “Log person Ko Bhi, Kuch Bhi Keh Det Hain [People say anything to anyone]’. “Cartoonist Hemanti Malviya challenged the order of the Supreme Court of Madhya Pradesh at the Apex court to refuse to give the bail envisaged on 3 July.

Attorney and RSS worker Vinay Joshi were reserved in May by the Lasudiya Police Station in Indore in May.

Mr. Malviya hurt the religious feelings of the Hindus and disturbed social harmony by loading objectionable materials to social media.

On July 14, the lawyer Vinda Grover, representing Mr. Malviya, defended the issue on a caricature during Covid-19 pandemia in 2021.

“This may be unpleasant. Let me tell you that you are in a bad taste. Let me go to this extent. But is it a crime? Lords, may be aggressive, but not a crime. I’m just living. I’m not trying to justify anything.”

Ms. Grover agreed to delete the alleged attack task.

Justice Dhulia, “No matter what we do with this case, but this is definitely the situation of freedom of speech and expression.”

Additional lawyer General Km Nataraj, who appeared for Madhya Pradesh, said that such “things” have been done many times.

When Ms. Grover says that it should be a little maturity, Mr. Nataraj said, “This is not just a problem of maturity. This is more.” He said. In addition to inappropriate comments about Lord Shiva, FIR, Modi, RSS employees and others about caricatures, videos, photos and comments, including various “objectionable” publications mentioned.

Malviya’s lawyer in the Supreme Court claimed that he had only published a cartoon, but was not responsible for the comments published by other Facebook users.

Fir accused him of sending immoral and objectionable materials in order to hurt the religious feelings of the Hindus and to damage the image of RSS.

Police, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196 (prejudiced to maintaining the harmony between different communities), 299 (deliberate and malicious actions aimed at angering religious feelings) and 352 (Intentionally insulting the violation of peace) and chapter 67-A (knowledge), knowledge, knowledge) (Information) (Information) (Information) published in relation to.