Collective Responsibility to Respect ‘Father of Nation’ Says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today reserved its judgment on a petition filed by the editor of an in-magazine of the (All India Banks Association) which had published a satirical poem on Mahatma Gandhi but observed that it is a “collective responsibility to respect the Father of Nation”.

“Is it not a collective responsibility of the nation to respect Mahatma Gandhi?” the court asked Gopal Subramaniam, the lawyer for the editor. “You cannot respect an ideal but vulgarise the man who gave the ideal in the garb and guise of artistic freedom,” it said.
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