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Mumbai vendor booked for selling newspaper with Hebdo cartoon
February 05, 2015
In an act that has caused much surprise and alarm, the JJ Marg police have booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily
Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine
Charlie Hebdo with the controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed. Legal experts and newspaper vendors across the city said they were unhappy with the action taken by the police and wondered how a vendor could be held responsible for the content in a newspaper. The complainant has, however, stated that the vendor knew and understood Urdu and knew about the article and, thus, should have refrained from selling the newspaper.
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