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Indore: The Indore district court on Wednesday extended till February 24 the judicial custody of four men arrested alongwith stand-up comedian

"Mere ander ke andheron ko karne do shikayat. Hasa kar lakhon chehron ko roshan kiya hai maine (Let the darkness inside me complain. I've made lakhs of people laugh, lighting up their faces)."

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 h...

Comedian Munawar Faruqui was released from a jail in Indore late on Saturday, a day after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court, PTI reported. Faruqui had been in jail since January 1 for allegedly insulting Hindu deities during a show. Earlier in the day, the authorities at Indore Central Jail had refused to release Faruqui, saying that they had not received any official order for the same, The Indian Express reported. “We had earlier not received the order, however, a judge from the Supreme Court called up the chief judicial magistrate of Indore and asked him to check the web...

The Supreme Court granted interim bail to stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui on Friday. The bench that granted Munawar interim bail was headed by Justice RF Nariman.