Aseem Trivedi, the cartoonist who was arrested by the Mumbai police on Saturday for allegedly displaying questionable caricatures of Parliament, the national emblem and the Constitution during an India Against Corruption (IAC) protest and posting the same on a social networking site, will be released from custody. He was remanded to police custody till September 16 after being produced before a holiday court on Sunday. According to the Bandra-Kurla Complex police, Aseem Trivedi had put up the caricatures in the form of posters during an IAC protest in December 2011 at the MMRDA grounds.
Maharashtra home minister RR Patil had slammed the custody.