Cartoonist gets bail, sedition charges dropped

September 11, 2012 18:12

Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi jailed on sedition charges has been granted bail by the Bombay High Court. The Maharashtra government decided to drop the sedition charges against the this afternoon. Trivedi was arrested in Mumbai Saturday and sent to judicial custody till September 24 Monday for allegedly uploading "ugly and obscene" matter on his web portal and putting up objectionable banners insulting the constitution during Anna Hazare's protest in 2011.

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