After facing embarrassment in James Laine book case, the Maharashtra government has demanded that the Centre must a frame a law that will enable states to ban books that defame any person, dead or alive, who is revered by the people.
The Supreme Court lifted the ban on Laine's book Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India on Friday. Sources in the State's Law and Judiciary Department said the state's case had weakened because it did not have any basis like that applied in banning books of authors like Salman Rushdie. Opposition parties have been protesting what they call the state government's failure.
RR Patil, who was instrumental in banning Laine's two books, demanded a stringent law.
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