The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the arrest of Principal at New Government Law College, Indore Prof Inamur Rehman in connection with allegations of promoting Hinduphobia and anti-India propaganda. (Inamur Rehman v. State of Madhya Pradesh)

A Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha also sought the response of the Madhya Pradesh government in the matter, within four weeks.

As per a report in ThePrint, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Syayamsevak Sangh (RSS), had been protesting since December 1 over what they claimed was a “Hinduphobic” book in the library of the Shasakiya Navin Vidhi Mahavidyalaya (New Government Law College) in Indore.

The allegations led to faculty suspensions, Prof Rehman's resignation and a police case. It involved two books written by Dr Farhat Khan titled ‘Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System’ and ‘Women and Criminal Law’.

The former has a passage examining the Hindu society’s treatment of women, with the claim that Hindu women were instruments of lust fulfilment in a male-dominated world, and that scriptures revealed how they were subservient to men.

The State Higher Education Minister had tweeted that Prof Rehman and Assistant Prof Dr Mirza Beg had been suspended with immediate effect. A first information report (FIR) was registered on the basis of a complaint by an LL.M. student at the college who had links to the ABVP.

The matter was taken on board after Advocate Aljo K Joseph made a mentioning on Friday. Advocate Abhinav P Dhanodkar also represented the petitioner.

Government Law College’s principal resigns amid protests over a banned anti-Hindu book kept in the library

On Saturday, 3rd December 2022, gigantic challenges were held in the Unused Government Law College in Indore of Madhya Pradesh after an anti-Hindu book advancing devout devotion was found within the library of the founded. The dissents were held a day after the college administration sent six of its teachers off their obligation. Other than, points of interest of the matter brought to the fore stunning truths almost the teachers as the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s challenges finished within the renunciation of the foremost Dr Inamur Rahman, who offered his acquiescence to the commissioner of the Higher Education Division.

Six professors of Indore college instigated students

Six professors of the Government Law College had instigated the students against a particular sect. A controversial book (Mass Violence and Criminal Justice System) written by Dr Farhat Khan has also been found in the college library, in which objectionable words have been written against Hindus, RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), and VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad).

State government intervened

Now the government has intervened in this matter. The Higher Education Minister of the Madhya Pradesh state government Dr Mohan Yadav has handed over the investigation of the matter to the Additional Chief Secretary of the department. He said, “The role of six teachers in the case of spreading religious fanaticism in Government Law College, Indore, and the controversial book will also be investigated. The controversial book is said to be from a private publication. Strict action will be taken against whoever is guilty in the cases as per rules.”

Students protested and requested to file an FIR

Meanwhile, on Friday, student leaders reached Bhanwarkuan police station and submitted an application seeking registration of an FIR in the case of the objectionable book. It is said that the college management has purchased the controversial book, which is present in the library there.

Why two separate committees to investigate the matter?

The college administration has moreover begun a neighborhood request into the six instructors charged of spreading devout fundamentalism and the questionable book. At the ask of the college administration, the resigned judge and the Lokpal of Devi Ahilya College Narendra Satsangi will explore the total matter. The Higher Instruction Office has moreover shaped an request committee.

The committee comprises extra chief Dr Kiran Saluja, Holkar College’s Central Suresh Silawat, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Expressions and Commerce College’s teacher Anup Vyas. After the examination was given over to the Extra Chief Secretary of the division itself, there are questions around the viability of the committee. Individuals of both the request committees will examine the issue with distinctive bunches of understudies of the college’s first-year to final-year course. In such a circumstance, questions are presently being raised as to what is the point of shaping two committees.

Extra chief Dr Kiran Saluja called the foremost of the Modern Government Law College of Indore on Friday and enquired almost the complete matter. Consolidating the charges made by ABVP understudy pioneers and the data given by the college central, she sent a report to senior authorities of the higher instruction office on Friday.

Earlier incidents in the Indore law college

Six teachers were suspended for five days after the ABVP organized a challenge within the college on Thursday with the charges of anti-Hindu exercises against the college teachers. The ABVP had affirmed that the college teachers were restricting the evacuation of Article 370 from Kashmir within the college. Separated from this, they moreover purportedly talked against the nation and the Indian Armed force. Not as it were this, the teacher utilized to inquire young lady understudies of the college to meet them alone. It is hypothesized that all six teachers will be exchanged.

Anti-Hindu excerpts from the controversial book

Farhat Khan, the author of the book, has written several controversial passages in her book ‘Mass Violence and Criminal Justice System’, which has sparked controversy. Some of the excerpts in this book are as follows:

1. The Hindu sect is emerging as a destructive ideology.
2. An organization like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad wants to establish a Hindu majority state. It justifies the establishment of the Hindu state with barbarism.
3. Hindus have opened a front to fight against every sect.
4. In Punjab, a new trident-bearing organization like Shiv Sena has formed a front against Sikhs.
5. The truth of Punjab today is that the main terrorists are Hindus and Sikhs are turning terrorists in response.
6. The amazing thing is that earlier Muslims used to shout that minority Islam is in danger, but today Hindus are shouting that majority of Hindus are in danger.
7. Today, the Hindu majority is working to impose its will on the minority Muslims, which is leading to communal conflict.
8. When it was decided by law that the 1947 status of religious places will be maintained, why was the temple of Ayodhya excluded from the purview of this law?
9. When the RSS stopped the BJP from opposing the Congress, it also ordered the Congress to keep the Ayodhya dispute out of the law, so that the BJP continues its communal politics.
10. Of all the social, political, and religious organizations of Hindus, their only aim is to destroy Muslims and enslave Shudras, and the rule of Hindu monarchy has to be brought back and Brahmins to be worshipped by making them gods of the earth.

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