A Bench led by Justice V. Gopala Gowda instead asked Karuna Nundy, Mr. Dadlani’s counsel, to approach the High Court concerned to quash an FIR registered against him in Haryana. Ms. Nundy sought the court’s protection from arrest at least till her client, who had later apologised to the monk, moved the High Court. But the court refused to budge. The FIR also named Tahseen Poonawala, a Congress activist who too had tweeted on the Jain monk. The Haryana government had invited the Jain monk, who appeared naked in the State Assembly on August 26 to deliver a lecture ‘Kadve Vachan.’

Source: The Hindu September 07, 2016 21:00 UTC