Delhi High Court Rejects Suit Against Waseem Rizvis Book Muhammad For Allegedly Making Incendiary Statements Against Islam & Prophet Mohammed The Delhi High Court has rejected a suit filed against Syed Waseem Rizvi’s Book ‘ Muhammad ‘ alleging that it contained various demeaning and incendiary statements about Islam, Holy Quran and Prophet Mohammed. Justice Sanjeev Narula dismissed the suit filed by Qamar Hasnain which had sought permanent injunction restraining Rizvi from making statements or publishing the impugned remarks. It also sought permanent injunction restraining Rizvi from selling distributing or circulating the book through any medium. Hasnain had also sought damages Rs.2,05,00,000 with a view to discourage Rizvi from committing similar acts in the future. "Any injury or hurt to personal religious sentiments of the Plaintiff are not an actionable wrong under the law of torts. At best, a case may have been made under provisions of criminal law, which has certainly neither been pleaded nor would bestow any maintainability to the case before this Court," the Court said. It was the case of the plaintiff that certain contents of the book were damaging to communal peace and harmony as Rizvi had allegedly used derogatory and denigrating language against Prophet […]
