As per the High Court s order, the district court on Saturday ordered the release of Vyas and Anthony on a bail of Rs 50,000 and a surety of the same amount.
Following the Madhya Pradesh High Court's order, the two men accused of organising a comedy show of stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui were released from jail on Saturday evening.
Munawar Faruqui Case: Co-Accused Prakhar Vyas, Adwin Anthony Released From Jail
The central jail administration released the duo, who refused to say anything to the media on the allegations in the FIR lodged against them. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-13T21:35:27+05:30 Munawar Faruqui Case: Co-Accused Prakhar Vyas, Adwin Anthony Released From Jail outlookindia.com 2021-02-13T21:39:43+05:30
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The jail administration in Indore, on Saturday, released the two men who were accused of organizing the comedy show of stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui.
The Indore bench of the High Court had on Friday granted interim bail to Prakhar Vyas (23) and Adwin Anthony (25), who were accused of organizing a comedy show in Indore, during which Faruqui allegedly insulted Hindu deities.
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.